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Students successfully completing this course will:
- identify the thesis, summarize the text, recognize rhetorical devices such as parallelism, and comprehend metaphorical language.
- describe, evaluate, and question the purpose, audience, organization, and style of assigned readings, as well as determine a writer’s background, historical period, and cultural niche for discussion of bias, diversity or shifting perspectives.
- carry out a research plan which entails identification of research questions, location and evaluation of sources, selection of quotes, and avoidance of plagiarism.
- demonstrate control of college-level writing skills by crafting and revising cogent, lucid arguments. The student’s writing will exhibit logical, clear thinking, control of meaning, maturity of style, and appropriate tone.
- employ thesis statements, topic sentences, supporting data, introductions, and conclusions. They will effectively incorporate source material located during research.
- demonstrate appropriate skill in common writing conventions, including standard written American English, and correct MLA documentation and formatting.
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Students successfully completing this course will:
- employ appropriate reading strategies to comprehend, analyze, evaluate and synthesize information in purposeful discussions and expository writing demonstrating competent textual understanding.
- use invention, organizational, rhetorical, and research strategies to plan and develop an extended paper. They will demonstrate their ability to substantively revise by making changes in an earlier draft that result in a more critically sound final version. Writing will demonstrate effective organization and revision skills.
- write an essay that develops logically, presenting their argument clearly, demonstrating critical insight by selecting cogent and sufficient evidence to support their point, and maintaining essay unity even while developing divergent sub-points. Writing will demonstrate critical thinking and effective use of sources.
- identify and correct errors and sharpen their language so that their work communicates effectively, demonstrating grammar and usage appropriate for a college-level audience while producing prose that conforms to conventions of standard English. Writing will demonstrate competent editing and proofreading skill.
- locate, evaluate, and synthesize information from a variety of media sources and incorporate that information in their writing using correct MLA format. Writing will demonstrate competent skill in using resource material.
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Students successfully completing this course will:
- write an acceptable 5-7 page documented research paper.
- employ thesis statements, topic sentences, supporting data, introductions, and conclusions.
- write with attention to audience and without logical fallacies.
- target research from valid sources, incorporate quotes and paraphrased text as support, and avoid plagiarism.
- determine the correct citation pattern, and discriminate among sources, especially Internet sources, for accuracy and validity.
- employ Standard American English for the various requirements of universities and the workplace such
- as avoiding slang, conversational diction and sexist language, and following common usage guidelines.
- use an effective organizational structure depending on purpose and rhetorical mode.
- demonstrate mature and cogent language crafted for clarity, power, rhythm, texture, tone and grace.
- edit for errors in sentence construction, punctuation and mechanics.
- write an acceptable essay with thesis and adequate support independently in class.
- generate ideas through an effective prewriting strategy such as outlining, free writing, or clustering.
- compose and complete a written essay within an allotted time.
- summarize and comprehend college level prose.
- identify the model, summarize the thesis, and locate supporting information of assigned writing, especially the college level essay.
- name rhetorical devices such as irony and parallelism and translate metaphorical language, so as to determine an author’s intent, both explicit and implicit.
- answer questions from assigned reading differentiating between an author’s intent and personal reaction.
- describe, evaluate, and question the purpose, audience, organization, and style of assigned readings.
- determine a writer’s background, historical period and cultural niche for discussions of bias, diversity or shifting perspectives.
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