Expository Writing II reinforces and advances the lessons of Expository Writing I, leading students toward understanding and mastery of the processes involved in sustained inquiry: questioning, hypothesizing, testing, re-hypothesizing, and re-testing. Students undertake an ambitious intellectual project that culminates in a final paper in which they report on the progress they have made through extensive, in-depth inquiry. Projects may draw on library and Internet sources and/or may entail original research such as interviews, observations, surveys, and service-learning experiences.
Students are expected to complete Expository Writing II by the end of their junior year.