ENGL 99 Syllabus

Subject Code

ENGL

Course Number

99

Course Title

Prerequisites

Corequisites

Terms Offered

Credit Hours

Course Description

Course Outcomes

Academic essay writing

Order

1

To identify the structural components of writing tasks and the academic essay Cognitive Knowledge

2

 

To use varied strategies for gathering and developing ideas Cognitive Application

3

 

To organize and structure ideas to facilitate reader understanding Cognitive Synthesis

4

 

To compose logically organized academic essays using varied, appropriate patterns of development

and organization on topics of increasing complexity

Cognitive Synthesis

5

 

To integrate secondary sources to develop ideas, add credibility, and avoid plagiarism Cognitive Synthesis

6

 

To use MLA citations Cognitive Application

7

 

To apply strategies for revising the structure and content of writing assignments Cognitive Application

8

 

To use digital tools effectively for drafting and polishing writing assignments Cognitive Application

 

 

 

Critical thinking through analytical reading and writing

Order

 

 

1

 

To categorize concrete and abstract concepts and ideas Cognitive Synthesis

2

 

To evaluate evidence and ideas for their importance and relevancy Cognitive Evaluation

3

 

To identify rhetorical strategies for developing ideas Cognitive Knowledge

4

 

To support assertions with different types of logical reasoning Cognitive Evaluation

5

 

To analyze a piece of writing for its purpose, style, audience, and rhetorical strategies Cognitive Analysis

6

 

To evaluate secondary sources for their credibility and use in academic writing Cognitive Evaluation

7

 

To summarize and paraphrase an author’s ideas Cognitive Comprehension

 

 

 

Language success

Order

 

 

1

 

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

2

 

To analyze and correct errors in grammar, punctuation, and mechanics

3

 

To evaluate stylistic choices at the word, phrase, and sentence level appropriate for an academic

Audience

4

 

To utilize strategies for proofreading and editing