2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog 
    
    Oct 31, 2024  
2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog

ENG 104 - College Composition II Honors


Description: Extensive critical reading and writing about texts, including literature. Emphasis on fluency in critical writing. Advanced ENG 102  content and learning activities. Includes research skills and writing a critical, documented essay.

Prerequisites: ENG 103 , or ENG 101  and placement by English skills assessment. Reading Proficiency.

General Education Competency: Written Communication

Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Lab: 0

Course Content:
  1. Focus 
  2. Development strategies 
  3. Voice 
  4. Organization 
  5. Details 
  6. Sentence structure 
  7. Multiple meanings and perspectives in language 
  8. Sources and documentation 
  9. Surface features 
  10. Text interpretation and analysis 
  11. Critical reading 

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Write focus statements. (1) 
  2. Apply reasoned development strategies. (2) 
  3. Select and apply voice. (3) 
  4. Use organizational strategies. (1, 2, 4, 6, 10) 
  5. Use and select details. (5, 7, 10) 
  6. Apply sentence structure strategies. (4, 6) 
  7. Identify and evaluate multiple meanings and perspectives in language. (7, 10) 
  8. Locate, evaluate, integrate, and document information. (2, 8, 10) 
  9. Apply conventions of standard written English. (7, 9, 10) 
  10. Interpret and analyze texts. (7, 8, 10) 
  11. Evaluate and analyze professional and student writing. (11) 

Required Assessment:
  1. A minimum of 5000 words of student writing.