20801201English 1
Course Information
Description
The first course in communication skills at the college level, developing student abilities in critical reading, writing, listening, and speaking. The course emphasizes summarizing, analyzing, and synthesizing information from sources, and develops research and presentation skills. The class assumes competence in English grammar and paragraph structure.
Total Credits
3
Course Competencies
  1. Apply a process-oriented approach to writing.
    Assessment Strategies
    Written, Oral, Graphic, and/or Self-Assessment
    Criteria
    you interpret the assignment.
    you select a suitable topic
    you use prewriting techniques to brainstorm and organize before drafting
    you engage in low stakes drafting.
    you Identify the difference between editing and global revision.
    you apply global revising to your writing, such as content and organization.
    You give and act on feedback to works in progress.
    you proofread writing for errors.
    you reflect on the effectiveness of your writing process, in a writing portfolio or multiple drafts over time.

  2. Write college-level expository and analytical essays
    Assessment Strategies
    Compose 18-24 pages of polished prose
    Criteria
    you identify the conventions of academic writing within your essays: topic sentences, coherence, unity, introductions and conclusions
    you identify analysis and exposition.
    you write in a language that is inclusive and respectful (of your audience’s various identities)
    you choose an organizational pattern that will present your thesis in the most logical and clear way
    you submit finished essays on time and according to the specifications of the instructor
    you submit stylistically sophisticated, error-free polished essays
    you distinguish among different types of rhetorical situations and communicate effectively within them.

  3. Conduct research from written sources to meet information needs.
    Assessment Strategies
    Written, Oral, Graphic, and/or Skills Assessment
    Criteria
    you use library resources to locate written sources
    you compile information from several primary and/or secondary sources
    you evaluate sources for reliability, credibility, objectivity, and effectiveness of the evidence
    you describe the role of intersectionality on perception of self and others, if applicable to your sources
    you integrate information into a research essay from several sources
    you incorporate source material correctly into the text
    you avoid all plagiarism

  4. Apply active and critical reading strategies to a variety of college-level texts.
    Assessment Strategies
    writing a summary of a complex argument
    Criteria
    you read for inquiry, learning, critical thinking, and communicating in various rhetorical contexts.
    you analyze an article's rhetorical context
    you accurately present an author's main points
    you use appropriate attributive phrases to distinguish your voice from that of the author you are summarizing
    describe the role of intersectionality on perception of self and others, if applicable to the reading
    you identify relationships between ideas, patterns of organization, and interplay between verbal and nonverbal elements in a diverse range of texts.