ENG 108 - College Writing II for Non Native Speakers of English

Upon successful completion of this course the student will be able to:

1. Critically read, annotate, analyze, and respond to texts using informal writing.
2. Detect a writer’s thesis, purpose, audience, tone, organization and bias.
3. Use informal writing strategies to stretch and deepen their thinking about ideas they encounter in their reading, make connections between their reading and their own personal experience, and reinforce the practice of reading as a dialogue activity.
4. Effectively write a critical reaction or response to a text.
5. Understand pre-writing strategies such as brainstorming, free-writing, journal writing, journalist’s questions, and outlining and apply them to various writing task.
6. Develop competence in using appropriate rhetorical modes to address a writing task.
7. Develop reasonable arguments about controversial issues, and express the main idea in a clear thesis and provide adequate support.
8. Develop fluency in using paraphrases, summaries, or syntheses to avoid plagiarism.
9. Revise their own texts by themselves and with a peer reviewer for content, organization and clarity, and give constructive feedback to peers about their writing.
10. Use MLA and/or APA in-text citations properly and correctly form a bibliography page.
11. Improve proof reading skills by detecting and correcting grammar, spelling, and mechanics errors in advanced texts and in their own work.