Outcomes Spring 2014

STEPS (071, 072, 073, 074) Outcomes

Reading

  • Students will improve reading speed and fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension

Writing

  • Students will improve written content (accuracy, completeness, development), organization, and editing skills.

Information Literacy

  • Students will improve information literacy skills.

089 Outcomes

 Mechanics of reading

 Students will improve

1. Level of Vocabulary

2. Comprehension of main idea

3. Inference skills

4. Speed

Self-awareness

Students will develop

1. more awareness of their own reading styles as an active reader

2. better ability to motivate selves and activate schema

3. more options for approaching texts

 106 Outcomes

Mechanics of reading

Students will demonstrate ability to

1. understand vocabulary at level 10 or higher

2. comprehend  main idea in college-level texts

3. improve ability to infer ideas and draw logical conclusions

Self-awareness

Students will develop

1. more awareness of their own reading styles as an active reader

2. better ability to motivate selves and activate schema

3. more options for approaching texts 

092/093 outcomes

Reading

  • Students will be able to identify a writer’s impact or purpose, audience, and evaluate the text.

Writing

  • Students will be able to compose, revise, and edit a multi-paged essay.

Information Literacy

  • Students will be able to evaluate texts and sources.

English 101: College Composition I

 After completing this course, students will be able to… 

Think Critically and Read Analytically:  carefully analyze, interpret and evaluate claims, beliefs, texts and/or issues.

  • frame questions, define problems, and position arguments.
  • consider multiple points of view and differentiate between assumptions, beliefs, facts, opinions, and biases.
  • read and respond to various texts critically for purposes of interpretation, analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and/or judgment.
  • demonstrate an understanding of a text’s main point/thesis and its relevant supporting details.

Compose and Revise in Context:shape written responses for different audiences and purposes.

  • shape written responses to suit different rhetorical situations and audiences.
  • develop flexible strategies for prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing.
  • develop and support thesis statements that are appropriately complex and significant.
  • construct unified paragraphs with topic sentences and supporting details that advance the thesis.
  • use various methods of development such as illustration, comparison and contrast, and/or analysis.
  • balance their individual voices with those from other texts.
  • employ style, tone, and mechanical conventions appropriate to the demands of a particular audience or purpose.

Reflect, Collaborate & Evaluate:recognize and incorporate newly acquired skills, both individually and with peers.

  • develop the ability to critique their own and others’ work.
  • gain a clearer perspective of habits that may detract from the effectiveness of their own writing.
  • respond to comments from their instructor and peers.   

English 201: The Research Paper 

After completing this course, students will be able to… 

Think Critically and Read Analytically to Evaluate Different Types of Evidence:  carefully analyze, interpret and evaluate claims, beliefs, texts and/or issues.

  • frame questions, define problems, and position arguments.
  • consider multiple points of view and differentiate between assumptions, beliefs, facts, opinions, and biases.
  • read and respond to various texts critically for purposes of interpretation, analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and/or judgment.
  • demonstrate an understanding of a text’s main point/thesis and its relevant supporting details.
  • Develop an original and effectively supported thesis statement that is appropriately complex and significant. 

Compose an Argument That Synthesizes Source Material with Own Writing and Revise in Context Honestly:shape researched, written responses for different audiences and purposes.

  • write arguments to suit different rhetorical situations and audiences.
  • continue developing flexible strategies for prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing.
  • construct unified paragraphs with topic sentences and supporting details that advance the thesis.
  • use various methods of development such as illustration, comparison and contrast, and/or analysis.
  • balance their individual voices with those from other texts.
  • employ style, tone, and mechanical conventions appropriate to the demands of a particular audience or purpose.
  • use proper in-text citations and bibliographic pages to avoid plagiarism.

Reflect, Collaborate & Evaluate:recognize and incorporate newly acquired skills, both individually and with peers.

  • develop the ability to critique their own and others’ work.
  • gain a clearer perspective of habits that may detract from the effectiveness of their own writing.
  • respond to comments from their instructor and peers.   

Use these below! 201 updated Robin outcomes

  • Locate and evaluate different types of evidence for logic, credibility, reliability, and bias (i.e. primary sources, online and written secondary sources)
  • Compose humanities style research papers that include an evaluation of different types of evidence to support an original thesis and language appropriate for the audience and purpose.
  • Synthesize own writing with a breadth of primary and secondary sources with proper in text citations and a Works Cited page that avoids plagiarism.
  • Develop an original and effectively supported thesis statement that is appropriately complex and significant.

ENGL 271/272

  • Investigate and analyze non-fiction writing
  • Identify and cultivate personal voice as a writer
  • Prewrite, draft, revise and edit using rhetorical formats to produce expository writing
  • Collaborate, evaluate and reflect in class discussions, group work, and course assignments to improve rhetorical effectiveness

ENGL 235

  • Understand and recognize the purpose and process of communication in business and industry
  • Differentiate between effective and ineffective technical communication
  • Produce complete, accurate and ethical technical communication in various types of documents for different audiences
  • Collaborate, evaluate and reflect in class discussions, group work, and course assignments to improve rhetorical effectiveness

All Literature Class Outcomes

  • Describe the expressive and rhetorical power of language
  • Discuss their understanding of the historical and social contexts of literary texts and their contemporary relevance
  • Critically analyze a literary text
  • Use genre-specific knowledge and approach to read and write about literature

ENGLISH 247/8/9

  • ‘Control word choices and word order to create a particular mood or tone
  • Explore ideas using different tones or personas
  • Employ metaphors, similes, symbols and other forms of figurative language
  • Employ sound as a device, through alliteration, assonance, etc.
  • Use meter and rhyme
  • Identify the characteristics of conventional poetic forms, as well as open form poetry
  • Critique works in progress
  • Edit final drafts in a collection of their poetry
  • Identify publication methods for poetry

ENGLISH 253/4/5

  • Identify distinguishing characteristics of creative non-fiction
  • Control sentence structure, length and word choice to create a particular mood, tone and narrative persona
  • Identify subjective and objective perspectives in creative non-fiction
  • Apply literary devices to personal experience to develop a theme
  • Apply literary devices to personal experiences/perspectives to create narrative veracity
  • Explore subjects and theme using variations of subjective and objective perspective
  • Critique, revise and edit works in progress

ENGLISH 237/8/9

  • Distinguish between plot and story
  • Show, rather than tell, by using specific details, naming nouns and strong, active verbs
  • Develop scenes
  • Create believable characters through description, action, scene, and dialogue
  • Establish and sustain a point of view
  • Create and sustain tension
  • Control sentence structure, length and word choice to create a particular tone and mood
  • Critique, revise, and edit works in progress

 

 

 

 

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