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BHCC College Writing II Web Course Syllabus

Professor: Guixia Yin Telephone: 617-228-3445

Office: B300H Office Hours: 10:20 – 11:20 M/T/W/Th.

Email: gyin877@bhcc.mass.edu (Preferred contact; indicate course and section in the subject.)

Textbook

None.

95% of our materials are either from Lumen Learning (Open Education Source

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/englishcomp2kscopexmaster/) or professor-developed.

Optional Useful writing and editing exercises: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/

Lumen Learning resources https://courses.lumenlearning.com/englishcomp2kscopexmaster/

COURSE CATALOG DESCRIPTION

The course focuses on the research paper, the longer essay, argumentation, critical writing, and

reading. The course meets General Education “College Writing” Requirement Area I.

Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in College Writing I (ENG111).

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Upon successful completion of College Writing II, a student should be able to:

✓ Work effectively with a wide array of texts and read and understand diverse works by

✓ different authors;

✓ Write about complex issues from a variety of perspectives and work with complex issues

and ideas with a considerable amount of depth;

✓ Effectively read and understand complex issues that occur in essays the students will read

and successfully discuss and write about the complex issues that occur in the work;

✓ Work with a variety of multiple perspectives and utilize those perspectives in both

understanding a reading or issue and in writing an essay;

✓ Develop a strong firm stand in an argument essay, support that argument with specific and

logical evidence that comes from both the writer’s imagination as well as from sources from

other writers;

✓ Recognize and avoid logical fallacies and make sure that argument essays do not contain

such mistakes;

✓ Effectively and independently search for research material in the library and on the Internet;

✓ Effectively integrate researched material into the writer’s own paper in order to utilize

external sources as a form of support for the author’s principal ideas;

✓ Understand the key elements of successful writing;

✓ Understand the major steps in the writing process and understand the steps that the author

must go through in order to turn rough drafts into polished pieces of writing;

✓ Edit for sentence correctness as well as style and conciseness.

Communication Policies

➢ You are free to be online any time; I will be online on the mornings of Monday and

Thursday. If you need to reach me sooner, send me an email directly to gyin@bhcc.mass.edu

– with the course section in the subject line.

➢ You are expected to participate actively, regularly in all the forums, article discussions; you

are required to read all the weekly files which are meant to guide you with your assignments.

➢ My comments will be directed to one student for specific concerns or to all of you when it is

of a general nature.

COURSE ASSIGNMENTS

1. Online Discussions of Selected Articles

2. Portfolio of an Inspiring Figure

3. Forums

4. Essays

Notes: The specific schedule is posted online. For a major essay, I will post all the related files

and the deadlines well in advance so you can have plenty of time to prepare.

Online Discussions of Selected Articles

You are expected to participate in discussions of the selected articles on a regular basis. This

includes both your initial comments and your response to your classmates’ comments. Both your

frequency of participation and the quality of your contribution will be evaluated.

Forums