Goals for English 102

 

By the end of English 102, students should be able to:

 

Maintain and continue to improve the abilities gained in English 101

 

Critical Thinking, Reading and Writing

• Use writing and reading for inquiry, thinking, learning, and communicating
• Analyze and synthesize multiple points of view

• Work with demanding readings and learn to interpret, incorporate, and evaluate these readings
• Engage in a variety of research methods to study and explore topics, including possibilities such as fieldwork as well as library and Internet research
• Analyze differing perspectives (ideological, social, cultural, political, economic, historical) on issues so as to understand that multiple perspectives of an issue are in operation at the same time.

 

 Processes

• Use writing as a problem-solving process that fosters the discovery, analysis, and synthesis of new ideas

• Propose, plan, and undertake research projects that involve a number of writing activities
• Engage in collaborative work at a variety of levels (research, invention, writing, etc.) to prepare for team/group situations, communication in the workplace, and lifelong learning

 

Conventions

• Recognize differences (including differences of strategies for conveying information, for researching information, and for evaluating and analyzing information) in discourse communities and respond appropriately to those differences
• Analyze what audiences’ expectations about conventions are and address them in critical ways
• Effectively integrate a variety of sources into their writings
• Learn and use at least one system of documentation responsibly