Practice prompts from the Spring 2000 final.
Course Description:
English 1301 covers the most significant elements of academic writing. Students will learn and practice the writing process with special attention to strategies that improve style, language use, organization, and presentation of ideas. At the end of the course, students will be expected to write well-developed, effectively organized essays of 350-500 words with a minimum number of language use errors.
Defining Characteristics of Basic Intellectual Competencies:
Competency in writing is the ability to produce clear, correct, and coherent prose adapted to purpose, occasion, and audience. Although correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation are each expected in any composition, they do not automatically ensure the composition itself makes sense or that the writer has much of anything to say. Students need to be familiar with the writing process, including how to discover a topic, how to develop and organize it, and how to phrase it effecitvely for their audience. These abilities can be acquired only through practice and reflection.
Objectives:
1) To understand and demonstrate the writing process through invention, organization, drafting, revision, editing, and presentation.
2) To understand the importance of specifying audience and purpose and to select appropriate communication devices.
3) To understand and appropriately apply modes of expression, i.e. descriptive, expositive, narrative, scientific, and self-expressive, in written communication.
4) To participate in groups with emphasis on listening, critical and reflective thinking, and responding.
5) To understand and apply basic principles of critical thinking, problem solving, and technical proficiency in the development of exposition and argument.
