ENGL 1121: Course Description and Outcomes

COURSE OUTCOMES:
To receive credit for English 1121, you will be asked to demonstrate your ability to:

• Develop effective essays
• by practicing writing as a recursive (webbed) process of discovering, planning , drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading;
• by selecting information to support a thesis clearly, concisely, and logically.
• Read analytically both published texts and students' texts, including your own (i.e., identify the thesis, analyze support, and evaluate the effectiveness of the writing for the purpose and audience).
• Recognize and direct writing to a particular audience for a particular purpose; solve writing problems:
• by identifying a purpose or goal,
• by describing the audience's assumptions and expectations, and
• by selecting from a variety of writing strategies, the methods appropriate for meeting the writing goal.
• by making language choices appropriate to your audience and context. These choices include the consideration of diction, tone, consistent point of view, and style.
• Use edited Standard American English correctly.
• Recognize the basic strategies of persuasion and argument and apply these to specific writing assignments that address a variety of purposes and audiences.
• Use various information gathering techniques (including library research, electronic sources, interviews, and/or observation) to obtain evidence which you can then use to support your assertions in your argumentative research paper.
• Analyze and evaluate sources to identify the writers' authority, purposes, target audiences, biases, assumptions, and reasoning. Based on these analyses, select those sources most appropriate as support for your own assertions.
• Represent sources in your own writing through accurate summaries, paraphrases, and direct quotations. Use a style manual to cite and document sources correctly.