Learning Outcomes:
A. Students will produce coherent text within common college-level written forms
- Students will demonstrate the ability to compose and revise competent pieces of expository writing, including narratives, personal essays, responses to literary works and/or informal writing such as journals.
- Students will demonstrate competence with patterns of arrangement: narration, description, comparison, contrast, classification, cause and effect, induction and deduction.
- Students will demonstrate competence in argumentative and persuasive writing.
- Students will demonstrate the ability to read writing-in-progress, identify rhetorical patterns that work for articulated writing tasks and appreciate and expand their stylistic repertoire.
- Students will demonstrate the ability to write well-organized, unified, coherent research-based papers and essays that include a clear thesis and strong supporting material.
- Students will produce at least five substantive writing exercises demonstrating competence in drafting and revising for each. In Eng 102 students will compose longer essays, sustain more complex revision and practice greater control of structure, form and research than in Eng 101.
B. Students will demonstrate the ability to revise and improve such texts
- Students will demonstrate competence in the writing process from invention and prewriting through drafting, revision and final editing.
- Students will develop a repertoire for analyzing and approaching writing tasks, finding a subject and generating ideas for writing.
- Students will examine reading and writing processes in relation to each other and in class and with the help of the Writing Center staff, will gain practice in reading writing-in-progress, identifying what works as well as what needs work.
- Students will gain experience in using the personal computer as a writing and revising tool.
C. Students will research a topic, develop an argument and organize
supporting details
- Students will recognize persona, purpose and audience in writing and develop essays that demonstrate unity and coherence and contain a clear controlling idea (thesis), a strong introduction, sufficient supporting detail and a strong conclusion.
- Students will demonstrate the ability to use research strategies for specialized assignments, employing an appropriate citation format (e.g., MLA and APA) and demonstrating the ability to use Butler Library and the Internet as sources of reference information.
- Students will demonstrate competency in finding, analyzing, synthesizing material from critical and popular print and electronic and other media into their writing.
