Goal: Students will analyze and reflect on complex topics and appropriately synthesize their own
and others’ ideas in clearly written and well organized edited American English.
Student Learning Outcomes
Students will:
1. Analyze and compare perspective, meaning, and style in different texts, including those that reflect multicultural images and voices;
2. Construct a theme or thesis and organize and develop a substantial, balanced and convincing defense of it in a voice, tone, language, and format (e.g., essay autobiography, report, editorial, case study, inquiry, and research) appropriate to the purpose of the writing;
3. Use logical support, including informed opinion and fact, as well as their interpretations, to develop ideas, avoiding fallacies, biased language, and inappropriate tone;
4. Demonstrate satisfactory competence in the conventions of Edited American English and the elements of presentation (including layout, format, and printing);
5. Select and incorporate ideas derived from a variety of sources, such as library electronic and print resources, books, journals, the Internet, and interviews, and document them responsibly and correctly;
6. Apply a variety of strategies for planning, outlining, drafting, revising and editing written work.