MCCCD Official Course Competencies:

ENG102  2010 Fall – 2011 Summer II

First-Year Composition

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

4.

Find, evaluate, select, and synthesize both online and print sources that examine a topic from multiple perspectives. (I, III)

5.

Integrate sources through summarizing, paraphrasing, and quotation from sources to develop and support one's own ideas. (III, IV)

6.

Identify, select and use an appropriate documentation style to maintain academic integrity. (III)

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

MCCCD Official Course Outline:

ENG102  2010 Fall – 2011 Summer II

First-Year Composition

I. Applying Knowledge of Rhetorical Contexts

A. Circumstance

B. Purpose

C. Topic

D. Audience

E. Writer

II. Refining Effective Processes

A. Invention

B. Drafting

C. Feedback

D. Revision

E. Presentation

III. Researching Critically

A. Primary and secondary sources

B. Note taking

C. Summary and paraphrase

D. Documentation of sources

E. Information literacy

IV. Writing Persuasively

A. Logical appeals

B. Ethical appeals

C. Emotional appeals

D. Authority

E. Evidence

V. Applying Conventions

A. Citation style

B. Format

C. Structure

D. Mechanics