Eng 1A/Assignments & Grades/Individual Class Essays

Overall, these assignments are designed to practice skills aligned with course topics:

• Use rhetorical devices to clarify and substantiate positions taken

• Write within an argumentative context

• Distinguish between fact/opinion

• Reason inductively and/or deductively

• Draw inferences

• Develop paragraph sequences, focusing on topic sentences, supporting data, and evaluations

• Analyze voice and style

• Discover varieties of research techniques and sources

• Document research within current MLA guidelines

They aligned with learning objectives:

• Compose essays of at least 1,000 words that are structurally and logically sound and free from punctuation and mechanics errors.

• Employ rhetorical devices and strategies in one's own writing successfully.

• Use deductive and inductive reasoning.

• Use research that is appropriate and adequate to support one's claims in written assignments.

• Evaluate the central idea, and support provided for that idea, in the writings of others.

They are also directly related to Student Learning Outcomes:

• Development: using research-based evidence and analysis to support an argument.

• Sentences/Style: The essay applies a variety of sentence structures within a formal academic style.