English Composition II is a mandatory course that aims to further develop students' writing skills and critical capability. For the first semester, students will be learning the composing process, including prewriting, brainstorming, drafting, revision and editing and so on.

Students will also learn to be good writers by way of being good, attentive, critical readers. That is to say, learning through careful reading of assigned works and peer review. Students will learn to analyze texts and reflect upon issues such as coherence, organization, style and formality, plagiarism and so on.Students will also be guided to write essays of different rhetoric modes (process, classification, casual analysis, argumentative, and so on).This course will be conducted in both English and Mandarin.