{"id":85,"date":"2013-09-11T21:39:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T04:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/lmaunu\/?page_id=85"},"modified":"2019-04-22T15:33:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T22:33:31","slug":"english-202","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/lmaunu\/my-classes\/english-202\/","title":{"rendered":"English 202"},"content":{"rendered":"

English 202\/Critical Thinking and Composition<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Why take English 202 (besides the fact that it\u2019s a required class if you\u2019re planning on transferring)?\u00a0 English 202\/Critical Thinking and Composition is an advanced writing course that will help you further develop the writing skills you learned in English 100.<\/p>\n

In English 100, you learned about the writing process (pre-writing, drafting, and revising) and about different ways to organize your essays.\u00a0 In English 202, we will draw upon those skills and talk about more advanced ways to write essays to help you succeed in your more advanced college classes. One of our goals by the end of our semester together is to make it much easier for you to write essays not only for our class, but for all of your other classes as well.<\/p>\n

A second goal of English 202 is to develop our critical thinking skills.\u00a0 In my class, we will do so by discussing and analyzing readings that investigate contemporary American popular culture and society and the values, roles, and identities that make us who we are. The primary textbook we will be using is the 8th edition of Signs of Life in the USA<\/a>. <\/em>When analyzing the readings from Signs of Life<\/em>, we will also learn to question the assumptions, logical and rhetorical arguments, and viewpoints of the authors in order to create a healthy skepticism about what we study.<\/p>\n

Above all, in our English 202 class we will work on our analytical<\/i> skills. Developing our analytical skills doesn\u2019t mean that we will start criticizing everything we see; rather, developing our analytical skills will enable us to look at our own experiences and the world around us in a more questioning manner as we seek to discover what<\/i> things mean and how<\/i> and why<\/i> they came to be that way.<\/p>\n

If you take English 202 with me, you’ll be writing essays that analyze aspects of the world around us, such as advertising and our behavior as consumers, Web 2.0 culture, television and media, and trends in popular culture.\u00a0 The final project in our class will be a 12-15-page research essay in MLA format that is on a topic from popular culture that you get to choose.\u00a0 If the idea of a long essay like that scares you, please don’t worry — for we’ll spend a lot of time talking about how to write a long essay to help prepare you for the kinds of essays you’ll need to write during your college career.<\/p>\n

Our books will be the following:<\/p>\n