ENGL 989 Syllabus

 Academic Digital Communication

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Identify purpose, audience, and tone needed for varied digital writing tasks.

Compose emails effective for the college environment.

Demonstrate the skills needed to navigate and participate in online learning environments.

Academic Essay Writing

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Identify the structural components of writing tasks and the academic essay.

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Demonstrate varied strategies for gathering and developing ideas.

Structure and organize ideas to facilitate reader understanding.

Compose logically organized academic essays using varied, appropriate patterns of development and organization on topics of increasing complexity.

Integrate secondary sources to develop ideas, add credibility, and avoid plagiarism.

Use MLA citations.

Apply strategies for revising the structure and content of writing assignments.

Use digital tools effectively for drafting and polishing writing assignments.

Critical Thinking Through Analytical Reading and Writing

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Categorize concrete and abstract concepts and ideas.

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Evaluate evidence and ideas for their importance and relevancy.

Identify rhetorical strategies for developing ideas.

Support assertions with different types of logical reasoning.

Analyze a piece of writing for its purpose, style, audience, and rhetorical strategies.

Evaluate secondary sources for their credibility and use in academic writing.

Summarize and paraphrase an author’s ideas.

Language Success

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Recognize major sentence punctuation and verb errors as well as minor errors with internal sentence punctuation, mechanics, and grammar.

Analyze and correct errors in grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.

Evaluate stylistic choices at the word, phrase, and sentence level appropriate for an academic audience.

Demonstrate strategies for proofreading and editing.