English 101 Objectives
Students in English 101 will learn to:
- Develop college level writing that addresses needs of audience, situation and purpose
- Demonstrate accepted patterns of rhetoric
- Summarize, paraphrase, synthesize, and analyze material from sources
- Incorporate and accurately document outside sources using proper documentation format
- Demonstrate control of syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling
To obtain these objectives, students in English 101 will:
- Write and revise five formal essays through the course of the semester. Included in these five may be a sustained meta-cognitive (or reflective) essay submitted by itself or with a portfolio of writing at the end of the semester (see third item below).
- Write approximately five pages per week. These five pages will include drafts of the five required formal essays and other kinds of formal or informal writing, such as: responses to reading; responses to classmates' essays; brainstorming and invention exercises; writing that reflects on the students' learning and composing; in-class exercises designed to give students practice in various rhetorical skills; writing in response to instructor prompts, journal entries, etc. (Not all writing will necessarily be collected and graded by the instructor).
- Reflect upon and analyze their own writing and their progress as writers, either at intervals throughout the semester, or in a final essay submitted at the end of the semester that analyzes and traces students' development as writers and researchers (see first item above).
- Meet regularly in the computer facilities to write, research, and respond to each others writing. read, discuss, and write about assigned essays and other texts.
- Meet with their instructors in individual conferences at least twice a semester to discuss their writing.
- Move beyond the five-paragraph essay model they may have used in high school; write longer formal essays that fully develop and support their ideas and arguments.
