Springfield Technical Community College

ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

Course Number:	ENGL 100	Department:	English	
Course Title:	English Composition 1	Semester:	Spring	Year:	1997	

Objectives/Competencies

Course Objective	Competencies	
1.	Understanding the writing process.

2.	Development of effective paragraphs.

3.	Improvement of style.

4.	Familiarity with major patterns of essay development.

5.	Development of college-level research skills.
	1.	Student demonstrates knowledge of prewriting skills.
2.	Student demonstrates proficiency in editing.
3.	Student demonstrates ability in revising writing.

1.	Student uses topic sentences to achieve unity.
2.	Student uses logical patterns of organization and achieves coherence.
3.	Student uses initial and internal transitions to achieve coherence.
4.	Student uses sufficient number of examples or details to illustrate and support topic completely.

1.	Student adapts tone and diction appropriate to audience and purpose.
2.	Student writes clear, fluent, mature sentences.
3.	Student exhibits grammatical and mechanical correctness.

1.	Student uses thesis, statement of interest, or dominant impression to achieve overall unity of essays.
2.	Student uses such basic patterns of organization as importance, spatial, and chronological.
3.	Student demonstrates familiarity with appropriate use of such patterns as definition, cause/effect, comparison/contrast, classification, and argumentation.

1.	Student demonstrates ability to choose a specific, focused topic.
2.	Student demonstrates familiarity with appropriate methods of research, using library and other research sources.
3.	Student demonstrates ability to paraphrase, summarize, and integrate research material into finished paper.
4.	Student correctly documents research materials according to MLA style.