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EASTERN ARIZONA COLLEGE Basic Writing Skills

Course Design 2011-2012

Course Information Division Course Number Title Credits Developed by Lecture/Lab Ratio Transfer Status Activity Course CIP Code Assessment Mode Semester Taught GE Category Separate Lab Awareness Course Intensive Writing Course

Communicative Arts ENG 055 Basic Writing Skills 3 Dr. Rebecca Jarvis 3 Lecture/0 Lab Non-transferable No 23.1301 Portfolio Fall and Spring None No No No

Prerequisites Placement testing or equivalent and concurrent enrollment in ENG 054 required

Educational Value

This course is designed for those students in need of remediation of English basics essential to consideration of subsequent educational and occupational training and success.

Description Individual and group instruction in basic writing skills.

Supplies None

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Competencies and Performance Standards

1. Analyze the elements of a sentence.

Learning objectives

What you will learn as you master the competency:

a.

Define and Identify a sentence, a clause, and a fragment.

b.

Define and identify the subject and verb.

c.

Define and identify subject-verb agreement.

d.

Define and identify subject, object, and demonstrative pronouns.

e.

Define and identify a modifier, an adjective, and an adverb.

f.

Define and identify all verb tenses: regular and irregular.

g.

Define and identify prepositional phrases.

Performance Standards

Competence will be demonstrated:

o

on exercises from the text discussed in class.

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in student-generated sentences.

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on quizzes and tests throughout the semester.

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through in-class writing and exercises following discussion of each unit in text.

Criteria - Performance will be satisfactory when:

o

learner correctly defines and identifies the basic elements of a sentence.

o

learner correctly defines and identifies all verb tenses (regular and irregular).

2. Write simple, compound, complex, and compound/complex sentences.

Learning objectives

What you will learn as you master the competency:

a.

Write a variety of sentence forms.

b.

Combine ideas in sentences of increasing sophistication.

c.

Employ a variety of dependent clauses to vary sentence structure and enhance

meaning.

Performance Standards

Competence will be demonstrated:

o

on exercises from the text discussed in class.

o

in student generated paragraphs and essays.

o

on quizzes and tests throughout the semester.

o

through in-class writing and exercises following discussion of each unit in text.

Criteria - Performance will be satisfactory when:

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learner is able to write a variety of grammatically correct and meaningful sentences.

o

learner correctly punctuates a variety of sentence forms.

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3. Organize and develop effective paragraphs.

Learning objectives

What you will learn as you master the competency:

a.

Create paragraphs with a controlling idea and logical development in support of an idea.

Performance Standards

Competence will be demonstrated:

o

through in-class and out-of-class paragraphs writing assignments throughout the

semester.

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in paragraphs used in essays in the last part of the semester.

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on quizzes and tests which require a written paragraph response.

Criteria - Performance will be satisfactory when:

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learner is able to write a unified, coherent paragraph.

o

learner is able to limit the subject matter covered in a paragraph.

o

learner is able to write a sound topic sentence employed as a controlling idea for a

paragraph.

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learner employs a variety of strategies (exemplification, definition, narrative, etc.) in a

paragraph.

4. Develop reading skills as they relate to writing.

Learning objectives

What you will learn as you master the competency:

a.

Write using text as rhetorical models.

b.

Read for rhetorical strategies.

c.

Write in response to texts.

Performance Standards

Competence will be demonstrated:

o

through in-class and out-of-class writing assignments which use text readings as

rhetorical models.

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through in-class and out-of-class writing assignments which require response to

readings in the text.

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in quizzes and tests throughout the semester which deal with reading assignments from

text.

Criteria - Performance will be satisfactory when:

o

learner can identify rhetorical strategies employed in text readings.

o

learner can identify main and subordinate ideas in paragraphs and essays in text.

Types of Instruction Lecture/discussion Small group discussion Peer editing Audio/visual

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Grading Information Grading Rationale The course is a writing course; therefore, writing grades will comprise at least three-fourths of the final grade. The essay portion of the final examination will comprise ten percent of the final grade. Other methods of evaluation, including quizzes, examinations, in-class activities, etc., will be included in the other one-fourth of the grade.

Grading Scale A 90-100% B 80-89% C 70-79% D 60-69% F 59% and below

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