The second of a two-course sequence. Focuses on research. Students will learn how to use the library resources to produce a longer documented paper, how to evaluate conflicting claims and evidence to write an extended argument, and how to write papers based on primary research. Stresses problem-solving and reasoning skills but also includes grammatical structure, diction, and style appropriate to professional writing situations.

Outcomes intended to be partially met by the Wikipedia Assignment:

Generate texts for various academic audiences and purposes; analyze texts as existing in a broader context, with distinct purposes and audiences; and synthesize academic research appropriate for genres and rhetorical situations.

The Wikipedia assignment will be free of argument and will focus on analyzing and synthesizing texts and presenting facts without bias. The element of argumentation for academic audiences taught in this course will be met through assignments unrelated to the Wikipedia project.

The Wikipedia assignment will ask students to improve an article identified as "S." The students will identify individually or in groups which articles they seek to improve.

Students will spend eight weeks of the semester completing the Wikipedia Assignment.

The various portions and full assignment will receive marks based on completion.. There will also be a reflection assignment and a journal.