The goals and objectives given below represent the minimum standard that every student must achieve to pass the course. Students performing at the most basic level would be operating at a level commensurate to a grade of 60, while more able students should demonstrate abilities at a higher standard and level of achievement.
Students who successfully complete this course will be able to do the following:
Goal 1: To analyse and discuss academically social problems and propose possible solutions in an essay of this genre.
Objective 1.1: | To define and classify a concept with some clarity. |
Objective 1.2: | To describe and discuss the size and seriousness of a problem. |
Objective 1.3: | To discuss a cause and negative effects of a problem. |
Objective 1.4: | To develop, describe and justify a possible policy-level solution, including details about implementation. |
Goal 2: To utilise a process approach to writing to achieve improvements at each stage of the drafting process.
Objective 2.1: | To use a prewriting technique before drafting. |
Objective 2.2: | To self and peer review drafts according to criteria aligned with classroom activities. |
Objective 2.3: | To incorporate peer and instructor feedback into successive drafts. |
Objective 2.4: | To produce a polished final draft. |
Goal 3: To successfully integrate and attribute published ideas related to their written discussion.
Objective 3.1: | To understand the reasons for attribution. |
Objective 3.2: | To paraphrase published ideas accurately and sufficiently. |
Objective 3.3: | To successfully integrate expert opinions and statistics into the writer’s own discussion. |
Objective 3.4: | To cite and reference according to APA conventions. |
Objective 3.5: | To refine awareness of plagiarism and means of avoiding it. |
Goal 4: To further awareness of and capability with effective academic paragraphs.
Objective 4.1: | To use topic sentences to state the topic and the controlling idea clearly. |
Objective 4.2: | To develop controlling ideas successfully through details, integrated research, and transitions. |
Objective 4.3: | To achieve stated goals of paragraphs. |
Objective 4.4: | To sequence essay paragraphs logically. |
Goal 5: To further mastery over language common in academic writing of this genre.
Objective 5.1: | To improve sentence mechanics. |
Objective 5.2: | To improve academic style. |
Objective 5.3: | To accurately describe actions in the simple present and in the imaginary future. |
Objective 5.4: | To develop further accuracy over subject-verb agreement and noun case. |
Updated 2018.02.15