Goals+and+Objectives


 * Composition II Goals and Objectives **

Adapted from “General Principles for English Composition at Salem State” < @http://www.pearsoncustom.com/salemstcr/>


 * Goals **


 * Students in ENG 102 will develop the following knowledge and skills:**


 * 1) The ability to use flexible composing processes that are well suited to the types of writing produced by professionals in academic fields
 * 2) An understanding of how the rhetorical relationships among writer, audience, and message should influence their writing,
 * 3) The ability to use writing to sharpen their own analytic and critical-thinking skills,
 * 4) The ability to participate in the written exchanges of a community of writers who share some common concerns, and, more specifically,
 * 5) The ability to draw on their reading and first-hand experiences in order to verify, critique, and extend the arguments offered by other members of the community,
 * 6) The ability to critique and refine their own ideas in light of new knowledge that they develop through their reading and other experiences in the course,
 * 7) The ability to construct reasonable and persuasive defenses of their positions when these positions are critiqued by advocates of other positions.
 * 8) The ability to analyze the writing conventions of common genres and to produce texts that conform to those conventions, including
 * 9) The grammar, spelling, and punctuation conventions of standard American English,
 * 10) The conventions of unity, organization, and support that are common in analytic writing and academic research.
 * 11) The ability to use effective processes for revising and improving their work, including
 * 12) Processes for evaluating responses from readers and for using those responses in revising an essay,
 * 13) Processes for proofreading an essay to ensure that it conforms to the conventions of standard American English.
 * 14) An understanding of principles for integrating source materials into their writing, including
 * 15) The conventions for fair usage of sources and formal documentation detailed by the Modern Language Association (MLA), American Psychological Association (APA), or another entity considered authoritative in an academic discipline,
 * 16) Techniques for emphasizing their original ideas while also acknowledging how other writers have influenced their thinking.
 * 17) An understanding of some basic methods for conducting library research using print and electronic resources.


 * Objectives **


 * Students will**


 * 1) write at least 30 pages of edited prose.
 * 2) employ formal documentation procedures detailed by the Modern Language Association (MLA), American Psychological Association (APA), or another entity considered authoritative in an academic discipline.
 * 3) read at least one and no more than three full-length books (or the equivalent in shorter works).
 * 4) identify topics, draft essays, and revise those essays.
 * 5) respond to other students' work in peer-response groups
 * 6) locate sources in books, periodicals, and online databases that are available in or through the Salem State College library.
 * 7) resolve problems in the use of standard American English grammar, punctuation, spelling, and the elements of style.