EN 102 Course Outcomes:
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EN 102 Course Goals and Related Objectives
Two assumptions held by instructors in the UA Composition Program are (1) that good writing is recursive and (2) that students’ “writing abilities do not merely improve. Rather, students’ abilities not only diversify along disciplinary and professional lines but also move into whole new levels where expected outcomes expand, multiply, and diverge” (Writing Program Administrators Outcomes Statement).
The EN 102 Writing Outcomes, therefore, include and build upon the EN 101 Writing Outcomes to address the advanced writing tasks of the second semester course: formal argumentation and University-level research.
Invention and Purpose
• Essay addresses the challenges articulated by its assignment.
• Introduction captures readers’ attention, gives necessary context for topic, and maps the paper’s direction.
• Essay identifies, focuses on, and conveys a defined purpose to its appropriate audience.
Arrangement and Development
• Essay uses Aristotelian, Toulmin, and/or Rogerian elements of argumentation.
• Essay presents a debatable thesis statement and supports it with sound reasoning strategies while avoiding logical fallacies.
• Essay demonstrates logical organization and coherence both between and within paragraphs.
• Essay's points are well-supported with evidence, analysis, research, and appropriate rhetorical strategies.
• Conclusion goes beyond the introduction to convey the significance and implications of the essay’s thesis.
Style
• Essay displays appropriate voice, tone, and level of formality.
• Writing is clear and concise.
• Writing includes variety in vocabulary, sentence length, and sentence structure.
Conventions
• Essay employs appropriate syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
• Essay demonstrates proficiency in Edited American English.
• Writing quotes, paraphrases, summarizes, and documents reference materials correctly.
• Writing is the student’s own original work.
Research Methods
• Essay uses an appropriate documentation style consistently and accurately.
• Essay accurately and ethically incorporates research from other sources through direct quotations, summaries, and/or paraphrases.
