GOALS, OBJECTIVES AND REQUIREMENTS
FOR ENGLISH 2000

  

 

GOALS

OBJECTIVES

Goal 1:  Understand the function of reading and writing in cultural, academic, and professional communities.

a.   Use writing and reading for inquiry, learning, thinking, and communicating

b.  Explore the relationships among language, knowledge, and power

Goal 2:  Interpret different rhetorical situations and respond with appropriate genres.

 

 

 

a.   Respond appropriately to different kinds of rhetorical situations, with a focus on purpose and needs of various audiences

b.   Understand how genres shape reading and writing

c.   Use a variety of technologies and/or formats to complete a range of rhetorical tasks. 

d.   Adopt appropriate voice, tone, and level of formality

Goal 3:  Continue developing writing processes and strategies that reflect invention, inquiry, revision, and editing.

 

a.  Develop flexible, recursive strategies for generating and gathering ideas, revising, editing, and proofreading, being aware that it usually takes multiple drafts to create an effective text 

b. Understand the collaborative and social aspects of writing processes

c. Learn to critique their own and others' works

d. Learn to balance advantages of relying on others with responsibility of doing their part

Goal 4:  Interpret, evaluate, integrate, and document information gathered from primary and secondary sources.

 

a. Understand a writing assignment as a series of tasks, including finding, evaluating, analyzing, and synthesizing information from primary and secondary sources

b. Use a variety of research strategies (interviews, surveys, texts, online sources, etc.)

c.  Integrate information from sources into their writing, documenting it according to appropriate conventions

Goal 5:  Understand and apply conventions for cultural, academic, and professional communities.

a.  Apply knowledge of genre conventions ranging from structure, paragraphing, and mechanics to tone

b.  Control such surface features as syntax, usage, punctuation, and spelling

 

REQUIREMENTS:

 

1)      Students should complete at least four evaluated writing projects in a minimum of three genres.

a)      A project may take several class periods to complete and include various reading, writing, and research assignments. Writing assignments may include journal entries, write-to-learn exercises, paraphrases or summaries, or researched materials. Although not all of the writing assignments included in a project must be graded, each writing project should be graded or evaluated.

b)      Over the course of the semester, students should produce final products for projects in a minimum of three genres, at least one of which must be an argumentative essay on a complex issue. Examples of these genres include academic essays, reviews, research reports, and proposals.

2)      At least one text from one of these projects should be approximately 1250 words. This text should require significant research, including library research.

3)      At least two projects should require multiple research strategies, including library research, to complete the rhetorical task.

4)      Throughout the semester, students should write at least 5000 words that are evaluated either as individual products or as a portfolio.

5)      Students’ work should include at least one oral presentation and/or technological component as part of a project (e.g., PowerPoint, poster presentation, post to a discussion board, blog, website).

6)      Coursework should require students to work collaboratively on at least one project through such activities as peer response groups, collaborative research projects, or corporate texts.

7)      All students will participate in a final assessment.