English 1102: First-year Composition II

Course trains students to adapt their writing to meet various educational, professional, and civic expectations for written communication. Students will engage in genre analysis, critical reading, and primary and secondary research as they draft and revise their writing projects.

Prerequisites

To enroll in English 1102, students must have either exempted English 1101 or passed it with a “D” or better. To graduate, however, students must have earned a grade of “C” in English 1101 and have a combined average grade of “C” in English 1101 and 1102. Students therefore are strongly advised not to enroll in English 1102 until they have received a "C" in English 1101.

According to the University policy on plus-minus grading, a grade of “C-” will not satisfy the requirement for a “C” in ENGL 1101; a combined average of “C-“ or 1.7 in English 1101 and 1102 will not satisfy the requirement for a combined average of “C” in the two courses. For more information on plus-minus grading, refer to the Grading Policy on the UGA Bulletin. 

• Fulfills General Education Core Area I: Foundation
• Fulfills Institutional Competencies Learning Outcomes:
   
  • Communication: The ability to effectively develop, express, and exchange ideas in written, oral, interpersonal, or visual form.
  • Critical Thinking: The ability to pursue and comprehensively evaluate information before accepting or establishing a conclusion, decision, or action.

Goals

• Learning and applying rhetorical terms to better understand audience, purpose, and context 
• Exploring different disciplinary approaches to writing and genre 
• Crafting writing styles appropriate for a variety of rhetorical situations and readers 
• Using a variety of technologies and modalities to develop writing 

• Developing productive writing processes across multiple drafts and stages 
• Using ongoing writing processes to discover and develop ideas 
• Providing meaningful critiques of others' work 
• Assessing and applying feedback from others 

• Analyzing and interpreting published texts 
• Practicing research skills on primary and secondary texts 
• Considering multiple perspectives within professional, scholarly, and civic conversations 
• Establishing criteria and techniques for assessing source reliability and applicability 
• Using disciplinarily and rhetorically appropriate documentation techniques 
• Discovering and conveying rhetorically sound interpretations of texts 
• Situating arguments within scholarly, professional, and social conversation 

Requirements

Students will write a minimum of three essays (1,000-1,500 words or longer) that count for at least 50% of the student’s final grade. In addition to writing papers and doing other work, all students will create a final electronic portfolio that counts as 30% of their final grade.

Course Texts

Primary Required: First-year Writing Guide (Digital version found on departmental website)

Text(s) must be chosen by course instructor.