Course Objectives

Upon successfully completing this course, you will have met the following goals:

  1. Goal 1 - Students will be able to write well-organized and developed paragraphs or longer pieces of writing. Given a topic, students will be able to:
    • Generate ideas
    • Focus on a main idea
    • Organize support
    • Write a first draft
    • Include a concluding sentence
    • Revise the writing
    • Edit the writing
  2. Goal 2 - Students will be able to use simple, compound, and complex sentence patterns in their writing. After generating ideas about a topic, students will be able to:
    • Construct simple sentences
    • Construct compound and complex sentences
    • Use punctuation appropriate to each sentence pattern
  3. Goal 3 - Students will build fluency and accuracy in writing. Students will be able to:
    • Use appropriate word forms in sentences
    • Use vocabulary appropriate to the context
    • Edit writing focusing on verb forms, including base form, infinitive, and gerund, verb tense, and agreement (subject/verb, singular/plural, and pronoun reference)