ENGL 1012: English Composition II
Professor: Justin Gallagher
Class Time & Location: Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30-10:45 am, Boylan 2154
Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:00 am -1:00 pm, Boylan 2311, or by appointment
Email: [email protected]
Section TR9B
Fall 2025
Image: “Writer//Thinker” by Boris Lechaftois on Flickr (creative commons license)
Description
In this course, you will continue building on the expository writing and critical thinking skills you developed in English 1010. Together, we will explore these skills through class discussions, group activities, writing assignments, and presentations. The semester will conclude with a research paper that you will work on step by step. By engaging with a variety of texts, you will strengthen your abilities in critical thinking, argumentation, and research in a supportive and collaborative environment. The course will help you develop key skills for career success including critical thinking, communication, equity & inclusion, teamwork, leadership, professionalism, career & self-development, and technology.
Objectives
Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:
- Use appropriate conventions of language, including correct grammar and punctuation
- Develop and support arguments
- Summarize, paraphrase, and synthesize information from a variety of sources
- Structure persuasive and cohesive essays
- Identify a thesis, whether explicit or implied
- Incorporate and integrate evidence into their writing using MLA documentation
Pathways English Composition Student Learning Outcomes
- Read and listen critically and analytically, including identifying an argument’s major assumptions and assertions and evaluating its supporting evidence.
- Write clearly and coherently in varied, academic formats (such as formal essays, research papers, and reports) using standard English and appropriate technology to critique and improve one’s own and others’ texts.
- Demonstrate research skills using appropriate technology, including gathering, evaluating, and synthesizing primary and secondary sources.
- Support a thesis with well-reasoned arguments, and communicate persuasively across a variety of contexts, purposes, audiences, and media. Formulate original ideas and relate them to the ideas of others by employing the conventions of ethical attribution and citation.
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