Fall 2019 Course Syllabi

ENGLISH 120: COLLEGE COMPOSITION II 120-1 3 semester credits Fall 2019 Syllabus Tuesday & Thursday 11:00-12:15 ITV 8/27/19-12/20/19 Thatcher Hall 1107 VCSU Rhoades Room 101 MiSU Admin Building 359 CONTACT INFORMATION Professor: Laurie Culbreth, Ph.D. Phone: 720-331-1299 E-Mail: laurie.culbreth@ndus.edu Office: 2208 English Department’s Chair Information: Gary Albrightson, Ph.D. Office Phone: 701-228-5602 Email: gary.albrightson@ndus.edu WELCOME Welcome! I am delighted to have you in College Composition II! This course is designed to assist you with your academic reading, writing, critical thinking, and research skills, with an emphasis on research. We will focus on your finished “products” and on the process of writing them. You will learn that all writing involves a recursive (and often messy) process of thinking and writing strategies. In this course we use active learning techniques and cooperative learning groups, where you are responsible for sharing ideas, for assisting others, and for being accountable for your own learning. We will spend most of our class time in short discussions, explanations of directions, and workshops. I view my role as a facilitator to help you improve your writing and reasoning skills. I look forward to working with you and to our semester together! CATALOG DESCRIPTION Advanced practice in college-level writing from sources and in applying rhetorical strategies Prerequisites: Successful completion of ENGL 110 REQUIRED TEXTS AND INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS Axelrod, Rise B. and Charles Cooper R. The St. Martin’s Guide to Writing . 11 th ed. Bedford/St. Martin, 2016.