Comp�Oral II builds on the English-language skills developed in Comp�Oral I. This two-part course focuses primarily on writing multi-paragraph essays and using spoken English for academic purposes, such as group discussions and delivering oral presentations. The course will continue to stress accuracy in speaking and writing and will emphasize skills and strategies to improve your ability to communicate in English. You will also learn how to analyze and strengthen your own and your classmates� written and spoken English. The general goal of the course is to increase your academic English language proficiency to the high�intermediate level in speaking and writing.

In Composition II, students will learn to: 1. identify and develop a controlling idea/topic sentence/thesis statement 2. organize and develop support for a topic sentence/thesis statement 3. organize essays in a logical order and with proper transitions 4. write expository essays with different development strategies (enumeration, process analysis, causal analysis) 5. write a summary-response essay on a selected article (summarizing, quoting, paraphrasing) 6. write self/peer review

Wyrick, Jean. Steps to Writing Well with Additional Readings. 12th ed. Boston: Thomson Wadsworth, 2007.