Writing 2 courses for summer session 2025.
Writing 2 Rhetoric & Inquiry is the only UCSC course that satisfies UCSC’s Composition (“C”) requirement, which is required of all students.
Writing 2 provides declarative knowledge about writing, with a special focus on writing from research, composing in multiple genres, and transferring knowledge about writing to new contexts.
Course outcomes:
| 1. Compose in more than one genre by responding to rhetorical situations and genre conventions according to readers’ expectations and writers’ purposes. |
| 2. Ask questions and be guided by a strategic exploration of those questions in order to generate research topics and sustain meaningful inquiry. |
| 3. Locate relevant source material, evaluate its credibility, and cite it appropriately. |
| 4. Analyze and synthesize ideas in source material to produce projects that interpret and evaluate their own ideas and assumptions, as well as those of other writers. |
| 5. Apply strategies when composing, revising, or evaluating their own work that enable them to follow conventions of professional English, such as arrangement, language use, mechanics, or documentation style. |
| 6. Reflect critically on how to apply their processes for writing and analysis to writing projects in other contexts, within and outside the university. |
Catalog description: Provides declarative knowledge about writing, with a special focus on writing from research, composing in multiple genres, and transferring knowledge about writing to new contexts.
Prerequisites:
In order to enroll in Writing 2, students must have a DSP of WRIT 2 OR C or better in WRIT 1/1E. If you are a continuing student, view your DSP in your student portal. If you are an incoming student, learn more about DSP here.