Course Goals and Outcomes:
Goal One: The Process of Writing
ENG
111 will help students understand that writing is a process that develops
through experience and varies among individuals.
Objectives
1.
Students
will engage in all phases of the writing process: prewriting, drafting,
revising, editing, and reflecting.
2.
Students
will incorporate reading and experience into their writing processes.
Goal Two: Critical Thinking for Writing
ENG
111 will develop students’ ability to analyze and investigate ideas and to
present them in well structured prose appropriate to the purpose and audience.
Objectives
1.
Students
will competently read, summarize, and respond to college-level texts – their
own and others' – of varying lengths.
2.
Students
will create unified, coherent, well‑developed texts that demonstrate a self‑critical
awareness of rhetorical elements such as purpose, audience, and organization.
3.
Students
will appropriately employ grammatical and mechanical conventions in the
preparation of readable manuscripts.
4.
Students
will learn how to use and evaluate outside sources of information, incorporate
and document source material appropriately, and avoid plagiarism.
5.
Students
will produce 15-20 pages of finished, graded text, including at least one
documented essay.
Topics to be Included in ENG 111
- Critical
thinking
- Writing
process
- Selecting/Refining
topics
- Developing,
organizing, and supporting ideas
- Investigating
and evaluating resources
- Incorporating
appropriate resources into text
- Considering
context, audience, and purpose
Additionally,
Students Completing English 111 Should Achieve the Following Outcomes:
●
Students will develop and write
four documented critical/analytical essays of varying length in response to
assigned readings and/or topics including a researched essay. Each essay will
effectively and appropriately incorporate MLA style format and (parenthetical) documentation;
●
Students will learn to identify
and accommodate audience appropriately for a variety of contexts and situations
●
Students will develop a clear
and arguable thesis for each essay assignment and support that thesis with
appropriate evidence drawn from appropriate course material and research
activity;
●
Students will identify
appropriate and reliable sources and properly incorporate them in one or more
formal writing assignments
●
Students will effectively
summarize/annotate outside sources to facilitate their leadership of a formal
class presentation and to gain their expertise in an assigned topic
●
Mechanical and grammatical
errors, will become increasingly uncommon in final drafts of essays or research
papers
●
Students will demonstrate
through conferencing, class discussion, formal presentations, and writing
assignments a basic ability to read and comprehend assigned reading selections.
Students will
demonstrate their knowledge of the aforementioned objectives, as well as
improve their reading, writing, thinking, and research skills, through the
successful completion of a variety class assignments and projects.