1060 Course Map

English 1060

Brief Course Description

Builds upon the critical reading and writing practices developed in ENG 1050 and focuses on research principles and practices. Students will locate and evaluate sources; negotiate differing perspectives; synthesize and integrate sources ethically; arrive at a claim through logical reasoning; and argue the claim in rhetorically effective forms, producing several sophisticated texts. Credit, 3 semester hours. PREREQ: “C” grade or better in ENG 1050.

Course Objectives and Outcomes

Course Objectives

English 1060 places students in a context for research by providing readings that invite students into an ongoing conversation in which they explore contesting perspectives in order to make their own contribution to that ongoing conversation.

Within this context, students will continue to cultivate rhetorical reading practices; learn to develop a research question; locate and evaluate sources; negotiate differing perspectives; synthesize and integrate sources ethically; arrive at a claim through logical reasoning; and argue the claim in rhetorically effective forms.

Students entering 1060 should be able to:

• paraphrase accurately

• incorporate source material with their own ideas

• use sources ethically

• recognize the elements of an argument: claims, reasoning, and assumptions.

Outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• employ strategies of pre-writing, drafting, and revising, taking into consideration rhetorical purpose and the knowledge and needs of different audiences.

• conduct inquiry-driven research to compose texts that integrate the writer's ideas with those from appropriate sources.

• locate and evaluate (for credibility, sufficiency, accuracy, timeliness, bias and so on) primary and secondary research materials.

• participate in an academic conversation with both peers and scholars by engaging with, responding to, incorporating and appropriately attributing the ideas of others.

• summarize, analyze, and synthesize information and concepts from relevant and diverse sources as the basis for developing or supporting their own ideas and claims.

• construct and advance an arguable thesis supported with compelling evidence and logical reasoning.

• produce clear and readable prose that focuses on logical connections, coherent organization of ideas, and clear transitions in and between paragraphs.

• follow conventions of Standard Edited English.

• adhere to the conventions of a citation style such as MLA or APA.

(ENG 1050 outcomes are implicit in 1060.)

Create Persuasive, Analytical Arguments

Understand Research as Active, Recursive, and Purposeful

1060 Course Map

Day 1 Activity

Why do we do research? What can it make happen?

What defines good research?

What are some good tools for doing it? What are some of the difficulties we are likely to run in to?

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Having discussed the pinterest fails, might you specify or develop what you already wrote?

Have the Writing Tools to Achieve these Goals

Enter an academic conversation in meaningful and persuasive ways