Composition II

Tentative Schedule of Assignments

January

Introduction to Course

Elements of Argument (reference chapters 1-6 in Current Issues)

Using Resources – Chapter 7 in Current Issues

Paper #1 due

February Logic: Deduction, Induction, and Fallacies – Chapters 8 and 9 in Current Issues

A Moralist’s View: Ways of Thinking Ethically – Chapter 10

The Importance of Being Earnest – Reading Test

In-Class Essay – Paper # 2

Privacy: What Are Its Limits? – Chapter 25

Paper #3 (due following Spring Break)

March SPRING BREAK

7 - 11

The Just War: What Are the Criteria? – Chapter 24

Torture: Is It Ever Justifiable? – Chapter - 28

Paper #4 due

What is the Ideal Society? – Chapter 29

April How Free is the Will of the Individual in Society? - Chapter 30

The Picture of Dorian Gray –Reading Test

What is Happiness? – Chapter 31

Paper # 5 due

May Final Exam

*chapters in Dialogues