Professor: Dr. Tony Morris
Class: ENGL 1102 – Composition II
Office: Gamble 204
Phone: 912-344-3123
Email: tmorris@georgiasouthern.edu

Course Description

This course develops students’ knowledge of writing beyond the proficiency required by ENGL 1101, emphasizing interpreting, evaluating, and synthesizing information to create arguments from a variety of sources using more advanced research methods. Some sections may have specific course themes.

Prerequisite(s): A minimum grade of “C” in ENGL   1101 or WRIT   1101.

Course Goals

ENGL 1102 writing assignments are intended to introduce you to writing and research practices that will be enhanced in upper level courses within your major or discipline. Passing English 1102 does not guarantee mastery of writing in a specific discipline, but serves as an introduction to academic conventions.

Course Outcomes

At the completion of ENGL 1102 students will be able to: 

• write critically 
• synthesize relevant and credible sources to participate in a scholarly conversation
• demonstrate purposeful and appropriate use of style, tone, medium 
• Demonstrate reasonable fluency in linguistic structures (such as syntax, punctuation, and word choice)
• follow academic citation conventions
• read critically
• use a variety of reading strategies for inquiry/discovery
• find and evaluate sources in multiple genres
• use rhetorical concepts to analyze a variety of genres