ENGL 23301 - Intermediate Expository Writing

Instruction and practice in producing researched and documented texts appropriate for public audiences. Emphasis on appropriate primary and secondary research methods, organization, writing style, and documentation.

Preparation for Course
P: ENGL 13100 with a Grade of C- or Better.

Cr. 3.
Notes
Indiana Core Transfer Library course.
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Produce texts that use appropriate formats, genre conventions, and documentation styles while controlling tone, syntax, grammar, and spelling.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of writing as a social process that includes multiple drafts, collaboration, and reflection.
3. Read critically, summarize, apply, analyze, and synthesize information and concepts in written and visual texts as the basis for developing original ideas and claims.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of writing assignments as a series of tasks including identifying and evaluating useful and reliable outside sources.
5. Develop, assert, and support a focused thesis with appropriate reasoning and adequate evidence.
6. Compose texts that exhibit appropriate rhetorical choices, which include attention to audience, purpose, context, genre, and convention.
7. Demonstrate proficiency in reading, evaluating, analyzing, and using material collected from electronic sources (such as visual, electronic, library databases, Internet sources, other official databases, federal government databases, reputable blogs, wikis, etc.).