Rhetoric & Composition II

COMP 2 is a sixteen-week research-based First-Year Composition (FYC) course focused on evaluating sources and making persuasive, research-based arguments.

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Through four scaffolded assignments aligned with the department’s Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) and a digital ePortfolio, students conduct individual and collaborative research and reflect on their growth as writers.

COMP 1	Description
Literacy Narrative	A five-week project where students turn a personal narrative into a new medium (podcast, video, or comic) to examine how genre, audience, and medium shape rhetoric, followed by a major reflective analysis explaining their choices.
Observation and Value Analysis	A five-week group project where students analyze a digital community’s communication practices to determine what makes a post successful, followed by a major reflective analysis of their positionality and rhetorical decisions.
Making Change	A four-week collaborative project where students propose an inclusive change to a public or institutional space through a multimodal persuasive argument, followed by an individual reflection on rhetoric, collaboration, and revision.
Reflection Overview	A two-week capstone reflection where students analyze their growth as writers and explain how they will transfer their learning to future writing contexts.