ENG 145 - Strategies for Composition

1. Develop an active reading process
   1. Identify effective reading techniques
   2. Demonstrate an understanding of assignment directions
   3. Review paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting strategies
   4. Recognize genre, audience, purpose, thesis, context, and tone in a source
2. Develop an active writing process
   1. Explore invention activities to generate ideas
   2. Produce content appropriate to context and audience
   3. Produce effective thesis statements and topic sentences
   4. Practice revision throughout the writing process
   5. Edit for clarity, conciseness, and accuracy
   6. Use a handbook resource or online resource to support effective revision
3. Evaluate strategies and approaches for organizing content
   1. Produce effective thesis statements and topic sentences
   2. Construct organized and unified sentences, paragraphs, and essays
   3. Link paragraphs with transitional words, phrases, and sentences
   4. Integrate relevant, credible supporting details and evidence from source materials
4. Adapt to the expectations of the academic context
   1. Recognize the features of academic writing
   2. Evaluate for clarity, coherence, and conciseness
   3. Construct syntactically sound sentences using varied, appropriate vocabulary
   4. Use standard rules of grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and spelling
5. Integrate standard college-level documentation practices
   1. Choose credible sources
   2. Understand how to access academic sources through the library (databases, journals, etc.) and online
   3. Recognize how documentation format varies by discipline
   4. Identify signal phrases, parenthetical citations, and bibliographic information appropriate to MLA or APA style
   5. Understand definitions and consequences of plagiarism