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Dec 06, 2024
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ENG 061 - College Preparatory Writing II Credits: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Practicum Hours: 0 Work Experience: 0 Course Type: Coll Prep The purpose of this course is to increase students’ confidence in their writing abilities by practicing writing as a process requiring multiple drafts while learning to develop, organize, support, and revise drafts. Students will write a variety of typed assignments while practicing correct grammar, punctuation, analysis, drafting and presentation. Throughout the semester, students will produce 12-16 typed pages (4-6 essays) Academic integrity is expected in all work. Competencies
- Construct essays with well-developed paragraphs
- Assess ideas to establish a clear focus, thesis and/or topic sentence
- Use a variety of organizational patterns
- Develop main ideas with relevant details, support or evidence contributing to unity of ideas
- Show connections between ideas by using sentence variety for sentence level and essay fluency
- Relate material to a specific audience and purpose
- Select appropriate language for subject and audience
- Produce well-reasoned inferences and logical conclusions
- Demonstrate Standard English grammar appropriate to assigned content
- Apply critical reading strategies
- Select ideas from reading or discussion to suit the guidelines of an assignment
- Develop well-reasoned inferences and logical conclusions based on the information in a selection
- Classify main ideas and supporting facts and ideas in a selection
- Discuss the function of paragraphs, topic sentences and analysis in effective reading
- Assess a selection for content, organization, and style
- Demonstrate paraphrasing, summary and annotating
- Identify examples of denotative and connotative writing
- Organize information effectively in keeping with the purpose of the writing
- Use prewriting to explore topics and ideas for an essay
- Select a topic to suit the guidelines of the assignment
- Produce adequate supporting details and examples to develop the topic
- Construct supporting details logically
- Use transitional devices to build coherence
- Evaluate essay drafts based on assigned criteria
- Apply editing techniques in workshops, peer groups and individually
- Assess peer review feedback to address specific areas of focus, content, and organization
- Demonstrate proofreading for sentence and word choice revisions using Standard English grammar
- Show basic understanding of the process of writing a research paper
- Demonstrate research skills including locating credible sources
- Show a basic understanding of MLA or APA format
- Demonstrate a basic understanding of in-text citations and the use of a works cited/reference page
- Discuss the definition and ramifications of plagiarism
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