MCCCD Official Course Competencies:

ENG101  2010 Fall – 2011 Summer II

First-Year Composition

1.

Analyze specific rhetorical contexts, including circumstance, purpose, topic, audience, and writer, as well as the writing's ethical, political, and cultural implications. (I, III)

2.

Organize writing to support a central idea through unity, coherence, and logical development appropriate to a specific writing context. (II, IV)

3.

Use appropriate conventions in writing, including consistent voice, tone, diction, grammar, and mechanics. (I, IV)

4.

Summarize, paraphrase and quote from sources to maintain academic integrity and to develop and support one's own ideas. (III, IV)

5.

Use feedback obtained from peer review, instructor comments and/or other resources to revise writing. (II)

6.

Assess one's own writing strengths and identify strategies for improvement through instructor conference, portfolio review, written evaluation, and/or other methods. (II, III)

7.

Generate, format, and edit writing using appropriate technologies. (II, IV)

MCCCD Official Course Outline:

ENG101  2010 Fall – 2011 Summer II

First-Year Composition

I. Understanding Rhetorical Contexts

A. Circumstance

B. Purpose

C. Topic

D. Audience

E. Writer

II. Defining Effective Processes

A. Invention

B. Drafting

C. Feedback

D. Revision

E. Presentation

III. Thinking, Reading and Writing Critically

A. Reading to discover

B. Reading to analyze rhetorically

C. Writing to discover

D. Writing to communicate

E. Writing to reflect

IV. Knowing Conventions

A. Format

B. Structure

C. Documentation of sources

D. Mechanics