Course Content and Outcome Guide for WR 123
- Date:
- 30-MAY-2007
- Posted by:
- Curriculum Office
- Course Number:
- WR 123
- Course Title:
- English Composition
- Credit Hours:
- 3
- Lecture hours:
- 30
- Lecture/Lab hours:
- 0
- Lab hours:
- 0
- Special Fee:
Course Description
Uses extensive research writing to develop skills in critical analysis and documented argument. Students synthesize their considered response to designated text(s) and/or issues with the reactions of other writers. Includes paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, and documenting using style appropriate to discipline researched. Prerequisite: WR 122.Intended Outcomes for the course
Outcomes for this course require working through multiple drafts of several pieces of writing with time to separate the acts of writing and revising; in addition, the reading outcomes require time to read, reread, reflect, respond, interpret, analyze, and evaluate.Upon completion of WR 123 with a "C" or better, student will be able to:
• Successfully organize and manage an extended, research-based, thesis-centered essay of 3500-4000 words or an equivalent in shorter essays using MLA, APA, or other appropriate documentation styles
• Demonstrate critical thinking and problem-solving in the context of research by showing observational skills, drawing reasonable inferences from a variety of sources, perceiving and establishing relationships among multiple sources, and analyzing the structure and organization of sources and own writing
• Independently locate, examine, select, evaluate, and use various sources, including electronic sources
• Practice and demonstrate skills necessary to research writing, such as paraphrase, summary, and use of direct quotation
• Articulate own problem solving process and self-assessment; demonstrate the ethics of research by identifying and avoiding plagiarism
Outcome Assessment Strategies
Reading and writing assessment tasks will include the following:
• At least one research-based, thesis-centered, appropriately documented essay of 3500-400 or an equivalent in shorter essays
• Class discussion
Other assessment tasks may include the following:
• Study questions and exercises to support the techniques of research and research-based writing
• Research journal used as a foundation for the research project
• Responses to assigned text(s), in or out of class
• Oral presentation
• Group collaboration and participation
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
• Examine and discuss issues of plagiarism, ethics of research writing, credibility, authority, and self-directed learning
• Advance the concepts of independent study and research, self-knowledge, and the ability to assess own work critically
• Engage in inference, analysis, synthesis
• Solve problems involved in an extended writing project
• Perceive, connect, and integrate a variety of sources and positions, and establish own ideas in such a context
• Experience research in terms of scholarship and audience
Competencies and Skills
• Awareness of audience in the context of research writing
• Increased expertise in the process of research
• Proficient time management
• Engagement with scholarship and participation in a community of scholars
• A sense of responsibility for own ideas and progress
• Experience in applying skills and concepts of WR 121 and WR 122 in the context of an extended research project