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 & Evaluate: recognize and incorporate newly acquired skills.
- 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…
- Write a humanities-style research paper that includes as part of its composition or process:
- An objective summary of college-level material which identifies primary and supporting assertions
- An evaluation of different types of evidence (i.e. tone/diction, logical reasoning)
- A synthesis of source material with own writing
- An original and supported thesis
- Proper in- text citations and Works Cited page
- A breadth of varied primary sources which demonstrates a familiarity with library research skills
English 235: Technical Writing
After completing this course, students will be able to…
- Write documents such as summaries, instruction manuals, analyses, proposals, and research reports, using accepted professional formats
- Design a research strategy to solve a specific problem for a specific client
- Conduct primary and secondary research
- Propose a clearly reasoned, convincingly supported solution to a client’s problem
- Paraphrase, summarize, and quote information with integrity and document sources accurately, following the accepted form for the field of inquiry.
- Design visually effective documents and presentations
- Revise and edit to improve clarity, economy, and rhetorical effectiveness
*These are found on the course descriptions website
At completion of the course, each student should be able to:
- Understand the purpose and process of communication in business and industry.
- Recognize and be able to analyze effective and ineffective technical communication.
English 271/2/3: Expository Writing
After completing this course, students will be able to…
- Identify implicitly and/or explicitly one’s intentions as a writer
- Define implicitly and/or explicitly the audience for a particular piece of writing
- Apply appropriate style, tone and format to the writer’s purpose and audience
- Use rhetorical formats conventional to expository writing
- Demonstrate objectivity towards one’s own writing
- Demonstrate practical uses/applications for expository writing beyond the college classroom