Writing 122 - English Composition II
(Writing Effective Argument Essays)
Instructor:  Cora Agatucci, Ph.D.
Professor of English & Humanities Department Chair

Winter 2008 WR 122, CRN #10205 - 3 Credits
Tues & Thurs 10:15 - 11:30 a.m., Modoc 220

Required Textbook:

Crusius, Timothy W., and Carolyn E. Channell.  Aims of Argument: A Brief Guide. 
        5th ed. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2006.  [ISBN 0-07-296130-9]
        Available for purchase from COCC Bookstore

Cora's Winter 2008 WR 122 Syllabus | Course Plan

Winter 2008 COCC Credit Class Schedule:
https://oraweb.cocc.edu/2008/200810/fullschedule.htm
Winter 2008 Schedule of Writing Classes:
https://oraweb.cocc.edu/2008/200810/WRT.htm
Academic Calendar & Final Exam Schedule:
http://current.cocc.edu/Degrees_Classes/calendar/default.aspx

Contact Cora Agatucci
Electronic mail:
Office Location: Modoc 224 (Bend campus)
Office Hours: See current Schedule; also by appointment
Office Phone & Voicemail: (541) 383-7522
Mailbox (Humanities Dept. Office, Bend campus): Modoc 226 
Fax:  (541) 330-4396 (Attention: CORA AGATUCCI)
Cora's Home Page: http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/ 

Brief Course Description from COCC 2007-2008 Catalog: <https://oraweb.cocc.edu/2008/WRT.htm#WR122>

WR 122 - English Composition
Using critical reading, observation or investigation to explore topics in depth, students learn to incorporate, accommodate or refute other voices, use evidence and persuasion and follow patterns of reasoning to support their positions. Recommended prerequisite: WR 121.  Credits: 3    Lecture: 3

WR 122 Recommended Prerequisites

Students are best prepared to succeed in WR 122, who have successfully completed Writing 121 (grade of "C" or better) or equivalent preparation, which means Cora assumes that students entering WR 122 are already able to:

--(a) Write essays that use a thesis to establish control over content; supply relevant and adequate supporting details drawn from observation, personal experience and/or responsive reading; employ the organizational strategies of effective beginnings, transitions, and endings; and conform to standard edited English.
--(b)  Demonstrate the ability to use a variety of expository essay patterns, such as definition, classification, analysis, problem-solution, and comparison-contrast.
--(c) Employ one or more sources responsibly (without plagiarizing) in a summary or another writing assignment.
--(d) Demonstrate, in an essay, a sustained style employing rhetorically effective tone, persona, diction, idiom, and syntax.
--(e) Use critical reading and writing to analyze and synthesize ideas in an academic writing sample, identifying rhetorical patterns, major assertions, and supporting details. 
--(f) Complete appropriate written (and oral) critical peer reviews of other students' essay drafts, including suggestions for revision and editing.
--(g) Complete written reviews (formal or informal) of the student's own writing strengths and weaknesses, including effective self-prescriptions for improvement.
--(h) Demonstrate, monitor, and articulate the complete idiosyncratic process that the individual writer uses to complete an essay, including such steps as invention, thesis formation, organization, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading.
--(i) Demonstrate an awareness of a variety of purposes and audiences.

WR 122 Learning Outcomes, or What you will learn in WR 122:

Outcome 1: Demonstrate the ability to use a variety of analytical and argumentative essay patterns (such as evaluation of a published argument, comparative analysis of sources, persuasion, argumentation synthesis).

Outcome  3: Demonstrate the ability to adopt a persona or tone that serves one’s persuasive purposes in written argument, and to identify and anticipate audience considerations (e.g. readers’ knowledge, assumptions, beliefs/values, attitudes, needs) in the selection of evidence and presentation of the writer’s argument.

Outcome  4: Summarize published arguments and analyze components of written arguments, such as claim, support (including the distinction between observation and inference, fact and opinion), warrants, assumptions, logic, rebuttals, credibility, psychological appeals, connotation, tone, slanted language, irony).