Student Learning Outcomes

· Compose coherent essays which exhibit sentence variety and clarity, accurate word choice, and engaging style. Use complex grammatical structures accurately, and edit own writing for correctness.

· Compose effective essays, with clear thesis statements, adequately developed and supported paragraphs, and coherent transitions.

· Do college-level research; effectively summarize and paraphrase relevant information; document sources in the MLA format.

More specifically, you will learn to:

Punctuation       

· control sentence boundaries

· correctly use commas, periods, semicolons
and quotation marks

Grammar

· edit for basic grammar problems

· use advanced structures

· subordinate and embed

Process

· generate ideas, using a variety of techniques

· outline

· edit, using a checklist

Paragraph Development

· control topic sentences

· support with examples, statistics,
quotation

· develop by means of cause/result,
restatement, definition, contrast, argumentation

· use repetition and transition for cohesion

· control for unity/relevance

Essay Organization

· divide into paragraphs

· write interesting introductions with
clear thesis statements

· use paragraph transitions

· write effective conclusions

Research Skills

· use appropriate academic style and tone

· use Proquest and Internet
for research

· choose and paraphrase relevant
information

· use quotation effectively and correctly

· document your sources

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11/30/2010