English 098 Learning Outcomes: after taking English 098, students should be able to…

English 101 Learning Outcomes: after taking English 101, students should be able to…

English 102 Learning Outcomes: after taking English 102, students should be able to…

Writing

• Produce a written response to a reading
• Write paragraphs and topic sentences
• Organize a coherent essay focusing on a main point and arranging ideas in a logical order
• Use transitional words between sentences and paragraphs
• Use examples to support an idea
• Plan, draft, revise, and edit an essay
• Use coordination and subordination in structuring in sentences
• Write a structurally sound sentence, using appropriate syntax and adhering to grammar conventions
• Make progress toward appropriate usage, punctuation, and word choice

Using Sources

• Support assertions using appropriate quotes and examples from a reading assignment

English 098 Learning Outcomes: after taking English 101, students will be able to…

Writing

• Write and support a clear and focused thesis
• Construct unified paragraphs with topic sentences and supporting details that advance the thesis
• Develop a coherent and cohesive essay using transitions within and between paragraphs
• Understand the paragraph as a unit of meaning
• Narrow a topic
• Identify and construct a complete sentence
• Make progress toward understanding sentence boundaries
• Achieve a command of standard written English and make progress toward mechanics and academic writing conventions
• Understand formality and informality in academic writing

• Adapt content, form, and style according to the audience, purpose, and requirements of a college writing assignment.

English 101 Learning Outcomes: after taking English 101, students will be able to…

Writing

• Construct a logical, well-supported argument
• Support a thesis using credible, appropriate, adequate, accurate source material
• Reproduce/produce formal academic tone with a clear understanding of audience
• Identify, narrow, and develop a topic
• Identify, generate, and refute counterarguments
• Independently adapt a self-generated text’s thesis, structure, and style to a particular writing task defined by audience and purpose
• Distinguish between “reporting on” or regurgitating information to taking a position and supporting it using source material
• Synthesize and integrate source material
• Understand academic writing conventions and make appropriate decisions about grammar, usage, punctuation, word choice, and style.

English 102 Learning Outcomes: after taking English 102, students will be able to…

Reading

• Understand the difference between academic and nonacademic writing
• Begin to recognize formal and informal tone in a text
• Summarize a reading assignment without plagiarizing.
• Identify the topic of a paragraph and the overall main point or thesis (when explicit) of a text
• Identify the intended audience and purpose of a text
• Distinguish between literal and figurative meaning

Using Sources

• Use a signal phrase to introduce a summary, paraphrase or quotation
• Use parenthetical references to cite sources according to an established documentation system.
• Identify appropriate quotable material and integrate it
• Quote, paraphrase, and summarize a text without plagiarizing.
• Make progress toward the ability to critically evaluate source material

Reading

• Distinguish between fact and opinion
• Identify multiple perspectives in a text
• Identify main points and supporting details in a text
• Recognize explicit and implicit meaning in a text
• Analyze and evaluate an author’s thesis, assertions, and supporting evidence

Using Sources

• Demonstrate mastery of the research process including but not limited to:
  • Generate and develop a research question and thesis
  • Locate, evaluate,  manage, prioritize, and synthesize secondary source material
  • Distinguish between primary and secondary sources and primary and secondary research
  • Effectively use the scholarly online databases, online library catalog, and other library resources
  • Use documentation programs as well as handbooks or other reference material to cite research in an established documentation style
• Understand and avoid plagiarism or the appearance of plagiarism

Reading

• Identify formal academic tone in a text
• Paraphrase and summarize complex/sophisticated source material
• Identify the controlling idea in a text
• Grapple with complex arguments and analyze dense, nuanced texts