This course is designed to help students who are planning to transfer to a four-year college or university to develop critical thinking, reading, writing, and research skills beyond the level of English 101 and English 105; it is a required course within many curricula. Assignments require a total of at least 8,000 words of graded writing. The course focuses on writing argumentative prose and critically evaluating arguments. A majority of the written assignments require some research and documentation, including library research.

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Note: I am not teaching this course this semester.

If you have questions or concerns, call me at (619) 388-7506 or email me at my school address

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Here are some selected links to sites and topics we have covered in class so far:

Stop Land Mines - You saw the ad, explore the site.

Orwell's PR Machine - Slate's piece on the private disinformation company that wants to have your government pay it to lie to you.

Internet Archive - Lots of information and interesting examples of arguments of all types.

John Yoo Testimony on Torture - I don't agree with the use waterboarding, but Mr. Yoo makes me want to reconsider.

Tank Man - A Frontline site about China and its control of information

Factcheck.org - A non-partisan site that will help you to sift through facts and misinformation about the election