COURSE
DESCRIPTION:
COURSE POLICIES:
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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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