Central Arizona College

ENG 100 English Composition II

Credit Hours: 3
Effective Term: Fall 2011
SUN#: None
AGEC: (None)

Credit Breakdown: 3 Lectures
Times for Credit: 1
Grading Option: A/F
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Description: An introduction to academic writing with an emphasis on generating ideas, expressing those ideas in essay form, and using one's writings to organize content, identify punctuation, grammar, and spelling errors and to create effective strategies for their correction.

Prerequisites: ENG090

Corequisites: None

Recommendations: None

Measurable Student Learning Outcomes
1. (Application Level) Write appropriately for different occasions, audiences, and purposes (i.e. letter writing, telling a story, expository prose, etc.). 2. (Comprehension Level) Demonstrate understanding of essay structure. 3. (Application Level) Compose essays, themes or other texts developed around a central idea, controlling generalization or thesis. 4. (Comprehension Level) Create compositions that demonstrate an understanding of why and how writing moves from one idea to the next. 5. (Application Level) Demonstrate an understanding of plagiarism and apply strategies to avoid it. 6. (Application Level) Demonstrate the writing process. 7. (Analysis Level) Demonstrate an ability to critically read and analyze student or teacher selected texts. 8. (Application Level) Accept and use critical feedback to revise texts. 9. (Application Level) Recognize and edit mechanical, grammatical, and other surface level errors.
Internal/External Standards Accreditation
1. (a) Produce effective texts in various assigned genres. (b) Choose and utilize examples, details, and organizational structures appropriate to the purpose and genre of the assignment. (c) Construct writing which demonstrates audience sensitivity in regards to language level and tone. 2. (a) Begin essay with paragraph that motivates audience to read the essay. (b) Develop essay with adequate and appropriate body paragraphs that support the central idea, controlling generalization, or thesis. (c) End essay with concluding paragraph(s) that leaves reader with a sense of closure. 3. (a) Write texts that include a definitive statement, located in an appropriate place in the essay, which focuses the reader on the writer's purpose. (b) Write texts that include only details and examples relevant to the central idea of thesis. 4. Produce texts in which the supporting points are effectively and logically ordered. 5. Acknowledge borrowed ideas and/or external sources according to standard academic conventions. 6. (a) Produce prewriting samples that reflect various invention strategies. (b) Produce writings, passages, or other texts that show improvement in focus, content, organization, and surface features from assignment to final product. 7. Produce verbal or written discourse that identifies strengths and weaknesses in student or teacher selected texts. 8. Apply critical feedback to improve writing. 9. (a) Proofread own work to correct mechanical, grammatical, and spelling errors. (b) Recognize and correct mechanical, grammatical, and spelling errors in peer-produced texts. (c) Recognize and correct mechanical, grammatical, and spelling errors in teacher-generated materials and other texts.