ENG-102

Use the writing process and conventions of academic writing to compose analytical and argumentative essays

Employ the writing process in the completion of an individual research project

Locate, evaluate, appropriately integrate, and document source material into their writing using a recognized citation style

Employ active reading strategies to interpret and evaluate complicated texts

Writing about and reading fiction, poetry, & drama – summary of the process and comprehension strategies

Language and literary techniques: precision and ambiguity, description, metaphor and simile, symbolism

Fiction: reading, responding, writing, the short story

Narration and point of view

Foreshowing and irony

Character and setting

Theme and plot chart

Poetry: reading, responding, writing, poetic forms: the sonnet, the dramatic monologue, odes, stanzaic forms

Tone and rhyme scheme

Speaker and imagery

Situation and setting

Diction and connotation

Allusion and personification

Drama: reading, responding, writing

Soliloquy

Aside

Dramatic Irony