Learning Outcomes
Students who complete English 110 should
- Demonstrate the ability to approach writing as a recursive process that requires substantial revision of drafts for content, organization, and clarity (global revision), as well as editing and proofreading (local revision).
- Be able to integrate their ideas with those of others using summary, paraphrase, quotation, analysis, and synthesis of relevant sources.
- Employ techniques of active reading, critical reading, and informal reading response for inquiry, learning, and thinking.
- Be able to critique their own and others’ work by emphasizing global revision early in the writing process and local revision later in the process.
- Document their work using appropriate conventions (MLA).
- Control sentence-level error (grammar, punctuation, spelling).
- Some changes in my revision process from the beginning of the term have to do with understanding and growth. In the beginning of the term I was hesitant to leave comments on my peers writing, I didn’t know what to say or thought that it would sound rude. The more I did peer editing the more comfortable I got with leaving comments on my peers writing, leaving pointers on how I think they can improve their writing while still acknowledging the good points that they’ve made.
- In my second essay I think it best reveals my ability to advance my views in relation to the texts. I also believe that I did a good job of doing this in my third essay. In my third essay I made many text-to-text connections with specific evidence, I feel like I did it best in the last essay out of all three. While I still think I did a good job of showing this in essay 2, at this point I had also gotten better at giving my own opinion and stating some of my thoughts.
- In my essays and annotations, I have done a good job with active reading. I have gotten way more comfortable this semester with questioning and challenging readings. I used to have a hard time giving my opinion on most things but throughout this semester I have learned that it’s okay to say what I feel, and I learned how to do it in an effective way.
