ENGL 102 - Critical Reading, Writing, and Research

• Write multiple-page essays and workplace documents that demonstrate critical thinking - including an 8-10 page research paper - that meet college-level standards for content, organization, style, grammar, mechanics, and format as well as accepted conventions of writing in the workplace.
• Write effective, sound, well-supported arguments using a variety of rhetorical techniques and conventions.
• Manage the research and writing process effectively and show evidence of effective planning for research project methods and resource use.
• Identify and respond effectively to a range of audiences in written and oral assignments.
• Formulate a thesis to anchor development of an argument appropriate to audience and purpose.
• Identify valid issues for research.
• Formulate research questions that aid in exploration and analysis.
• Use traditional library and online research skills to locate and evaluate college-level research materials as well as types of sources appropriate to research and writing.
• Integrate outside information into essays.
• Use appropriate standard documentation procedures in essays.
• Recognize and avoid plagiarism.
• Analyze readings for implied and direct meaning and for tone, audience, and purpose.
• Synthesize a variety of viewpoints to develop an individual argument position.
• Develop and analyze arguments using logic and other appeals.
• Identify and avoid flawed logic or logical fallacies.
• Participate constructively in discourse that may be controversial in nature.

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