Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 1B · IGETC Area 1B · CSU GE Area A3DescriptionThis course was formerly known as ENGWR 482 Honors Advanced Composition and Critical Thinking. In this course, students receive instruction in critical thinking for purposes of constructing, evaluating, and composing arguments in a variety of rhetorical forms, using primarily non-fiction texts, refining writing skills and research strategies developed in ENGL C1000 Academic Reading and Writing (C-ID ENGL 100) or similar first-year college writing course. This is an honors course. This honors course refines critical reasoning, reading, and writing, and requires a high level of competence in English composition extending beyond a traditional ENGL C1001 course. In this advanced seminar, honors students will read, discuss, and analyze complex texts, such as essays and book-length works reflecting a variety of social, cultural, and historical contexts. Honors students will employ elements of inductive and deductive reasoning, persuasion, and argumentation. Honors students will write at least 6500 words in at least four nuanced academic essays of a variety of purposes, including primary and secondary research and use of the Modern Language Association citation methods. Honors students will engage in research and oral presentation, utilizing relevant external sources to analyze, criticize, reason inductively and deductively, and assert evaluative conclusions based on evidence and sound inferences derived from their close readings of scholarly texts. Honors students will engage in additional presentations of independent and collaborative research. This course was formerly known as ENGWR 482 and is not open to students who have successfully completed ENGWR 302 or 482 or ENGL C1001. Students may satisfy the prerequisite for the course through successful completion of ENGL C1000 or C1000H or ESLW 340.Usually HeldTue 9:00am–10:20am 