EN 103 Course Outcomes:
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EN 103 Course Goals and Related Objectives
As an advanced or honors composition course, English 103 introduces students to the rigors and
wide range of expository writing possibilities. The course will present reading, thinking and
writing tasks at more challenging levels; instructors will expect students will be able to use
formal argumentation and conduct university level research abilities.
The EN 103 Writing Outcomes, therefore, address these reading, writing, critical thinking, argumentation,
and university level research tasks at an advanced advanced level.
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.
Metacognition
• Final reflective commentary enumerates all stages of essay construction.
• Final reflective commentary documents, explains, and analyzes the main type of
revision occuring in each stage of essay construction.
• Final reflective commentary analyzes a revised essay's strengths, weaknesses,
and the revision process.
• In-class writing after peer review sessions evaluates quality of peer contributions,
invidual writer's contributions, and overall success of the session in terms of time
spent on-task and cooperative collaboration among peers.
