Difference between EN102 and EN109

EN102 and EN109 share the core curricular focus on rhetoric, persuasion, and argument. EN102 prepares students to write academic essays, and its writing assignments are principally in essay format. EN109 prepares students to write academic essays and to apply academic essay standards and methods to workplace writing by assigning both formal academic essays in whole and academic essay writing as part of document types found in the working world such as memos, feasibility reports, and proposals. For example, in EN109 a Problem Report would be organized generally as a standard academic essay, but would also conform to requirements for a problem statement (elements of definition apply), background explanation (exposition, description, narrative), analysis of information usually including a comparison of options for solutions, and a reasoned argument for a recommended solution.