This course (Composition and Communication II) is a course designed to help you develop the higher-level communication skills necessary for academic (and professional) success – the ability to write cogently, speak authoritatively, and present your ideas visually. To foster these skills, we will focus on critical inquiry, research, interpersonal communication, and rhetorical engagement as the foundation of effective composition and communication. And, hopefully, you will leave the course a more confident and effective communicator (and writer).