This writing-intensive course provides students the opportunity:

GOAL 1:

• (1a) to develop critical thinking, critical reading, and analytical aptitudes in response to college-level texts, thereby sharpening communication skills essential for future success in college, career, and interpersonal endeavors;
• (1b) to recognize that writing is indeed a recursive process and, consequently, to develop written documents implementing writing-as-a-process methods, such as pre-writing, drafting, editing, and revision;

GOAL 2:

• (2) to develop, from clear and concise thesis statements, written documents that demonstrate a sense of audience and purpose, that utilize specific evidence and concrete details, and that incorporate logically organized and unified paragraphs;

GOAL 3:

• (3a) to recognize, practice, and implement such methods of development as description, narration, example, process-analysis, division/classification, comparison/contrast, definition;
• (3b) to employ said rhetorical patterns in multi-paragraphed documents that emphasize exposition and argumentation;

GOAL 4:

• (4) to employ proofreading techniques to produce college-level essays and extended papers that utilize a developed vocabulary and selected materials, that exhibit clear and precise prose, and that conform to Standard English usage, grammar, punctuation, and spelling;

GOAL 5:

• (5) to increase information literacy via the major facilities, services, and tools of the college library;
• (5b) to judge the scholarly value of data;
• (5c) to utilize professional databases for scholarly research;
• (5d) to recognize and employ quotations, summaries, and paraphrases;
• (5e) to identify and avoid plagiarism

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