ENGL 1170 - Writing Co-Requisite

Credit Hours: 1.00

Outcome 1: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to draft various modes or genres of essays.       

Objectives:

1. Implement pre-writing, drafting, and revising techniques in order to produce a portfolio at the end of the semester.
2. Implement close reading strategies in order to respond to texts.
3. Follow a logical plan of paragraph organization or outline for the paragraph progression of essays.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to compose essays that incorporate a controlling idea stated in an introduction, developed in the body, and summarized in a conclusion.

Objectives:

1. Compose an introduction that coherently leads to a statement of the main idea (thesis) of the essay.
2. Utilization transitions, repetition, leading sentences, or parallelism to connect paragraphs.
3. Create topic sentences that identify the subdivisions or supporting generalizations of the essay’s main idea.
4. Use examples, details, definitions, or comparisons to develop body paragraphs governed by the topic sentence.
5. Write a conclusion that restates, summarizes, or suggests the implications of the essays’ subject.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify common patterns of error in grammar and mechanics, access, and submit documents in accordance with their academic mode or genre.

Objectives:

1. Self-identify and correct sentence structure and grammatical errors.
2. Write using consistent point of view or specific audience and purpose.
3. Utilize the conventions of punctuation and correct misspellings.
4. Apply a conventional manuscript style and adhere to deadlines.
5. Locate and implement online LMS tools and Internet-based documents used for online texts, discussions, and assignment submissions.

• Communication: The graduate can communicate effectively for the intended purpose and audience.
• Critical Thinking: The graduate can make informed decisions after analyzing information or evidence related to the issue.
• Global Literacy: The graduate can analyze human behavior or experiences through cultural, social, political, or economic perspectives.
• Information Literacy: The graduate can responsibly use information gathered from a variety of formats in order to complete a task.
• Quantitative Reasoning: The graduate can apply quantitative methods or evidence to solve problems or make judgments.
• Scientific Literacy: The graduate can produce or interpret scientific information presented in a variety of formats.

1. Review and Question
   1. Students lead a review of the previous 1181 course, recapping principles covered.
   2. Students are encouraged to ask questions about concepts, techniques, or assignments they find difficult or don’t understand and identify what worked well or didn’t work for them or during the session.
2. Analyze and Practice 
   1. Instructors supply further or alternate examples of      the concepts iterated in the corresponding 1181   course in order to reinforce cognitive retention.
   2. Students experiment and practice drafting their essays using pre-writing techniques (free-writing, mind-mapping, outlining, storyboarding, etc.), textual comprehension or computer literacy skills (annotation, isolation of main and supporting ideas, indication of keywords, predictive reading, analyzing concepts or images), and revision methods (peer editing, line-editing, reading papers aloud, highlighting, workshopping, etc.)
   3. Instructors may consider utilizing additional learning modes they did not focus on in the corresponding 1181 section to reinforce their objectives and encourage deep learning. These might include different auditory, tactile, visual, kinetic or digital components. Students may be asked to translate their 1181 essays into a different genre (from a narrative into a letter, newspaper article, or personal statement, for example) or alternate formats (a multi-modal presentation, photo collection, podcast, comic strip, etc.).  
3. Preview and Predict 
   1. At the end of each class session, the instructor should preview what will be learned in the next session of the corresponding English 1181 class.
   2. Students are encouraged to ask questions and anticipate obstacles they face in that next class session

Final Portfolio

1. At the end of the semester, students will collect and submit a final portfolio with multiple drafts of at least one major essay from their corresponding English 1181 class.
2. Instructors may ask that students also include minor writing exercises or drafts of all the major essays.
3. Portfolio drafts should show revision and progression, and students should be able to identify and solve their own unique writing problems at both the sentence and organizational level.
4. As students draft essays for their coinciding 1181, they should be able to implement course outline concepts for developmental writing that consider paragraph unity, support, and coherence.