The course will focus on reading comprehension, vocabulary skills, grammar, and essay writing. In addition, this course will address the connection between reading and writing through reading response activities.

This course will focus on reading comprehension, vocabulary skills, grammar, and essay writing. In addition, this course will address the connection between reading and writing through reading response activities.

This course introduces students to rhetorical concepts and audience-centered approaches to writing including composing processes, language conventions and style, and critical analysis and engagement with written texts and other forms of communication. Student Learning Outcomes: -Students will apply rhetorical knowledge to communicate for a range of audiences and purposes. -Students will employ critical thinking to analyze forms of communication. -Students will engage in writing processes that involve drafting, revising, and reflecting.

This course introduces students to rhetorical concepts and audience-centered approaches to writing including composing processes, language conventions and style, and critical analysis and engagement with written texts and other forms of communication. Student Learning Outcomes: -Students will apply rhetorical knowledge to communicate for a range of audiences and purposes. -Students will employ critical thinking to analyze forms of communication. -Students will engage in writing processes that involve drafting, revising, and reflecting.

The student is trained in the collection, organization, analysis, evaluation, and professional presentation of business, industrial, or scientific data. The student practices a variety of letter, memo, resume, and report formats including the use of charts and drawings. The course includes practice in oral reports. A term research project is required.

This course builds upon the expository skills acquired in the composition sequence, but focuses on argumentation with emphasis placed on logical development of ideas supported by research. In addition to written exposition, the course includes a substantive unit on oral skills and oral communication.