ENGL 155 - Critical Thinking/Composition

Institution:

College of Marin

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Description:

(4.0 Units) (Prerequisite: English 150. Four lecture hours weekly.) This course is intended to develop rhetorical, critical, argumentative, and organizational skills in written composition and heightened perceptivity in analytical reading. Extensive analysis of texts will exercise the students' faculties of critical and logical thinking. The investigation and analysis of writing models will focus on deductive, inductive and inferential reasoning, on assumptions and inferences embedded in argument, on the informal logical fallacies, on divergent world views, and on incoherencies and biases in presentation. Student essays will be expected to demonstrate a capacity for presenting complex ideas in a clear, coherent, and convincing manner, with particular attention shown to matters of organization and style. A minimum of eight thousand words of writing will be required of each student. (CSU/UC) AA/AS Area E, CSU Area A-3, IGETC Area 1B

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.marin.edu

Phone Number:

(415) 457-8811

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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