ENG 200 Composition II / Scott Kaalele / Kaalele@Hawaii.edu /
In this course we will focus on our place as writers and students in our chosen professional and academic fields. We will be building on the skill set learned in English 100, as we further focus our composition lens on the specific writing skills related to each student’s academic discipline. We will be primarily concentrating on the skills you will need as writers as you move through your academic and professional lives. This course will lead us to ask questions concerning our future as professionals, how our chosen fields affect how and what we write, and the ways that we can improve our communities through what we do for a living.
Starting from the idea that we are all continuing to grow as students, writers, and people, we will begin the first unit by asking: What do you want to be when you grow up? From there we will examine the various ways that our future goals can affect and be affected by our collective experiences. Unit two is based on our sense of “place,” and the ways that where we want to be can affect our writing and world view. In unit three, the focus of community will allow us to get a sense of the ways that we share our world, and interact professionally and personally.
There will be a strong Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and Writing in the Disciplines (WID) aspect to this course, focusing on the kinds of writing required in your respective fields. Through writing and research we will be exploring these areas of composition: rhetoric and rhetorical appeals (the rhetorical triangle), audience, genre, writing process (revision, rewriting, review), critical thinking, and citation and documentation (MLA, APA, Chicago…). We will also have fun.
At the end of this course, students should be able to do the following:
1. Compose college-level writing, including but not limited to, academic discourse, that achieves a specific purpose and responds adeptly to an identifiable audience.
2. Provide evidence of effective strategies for generating, revising, editing, and proofreading a text in order to produce finished prose.
3. Compose an argument that makes use of source material that is relevant and credible and that is integrated in accordance with an appropriate style guide.
Major Assignments:
Final Research Project
Final Research Presentation
Short Unit Essays
Weekly Homework Posts on Laulima
Weekly Quizzes
All readings will be posted in Laulima or distributed in class. There are no texts to purchase.