Course Description
| Course Title: |
Research Paper |
| Course Number: |
ENG 1114 |
| Credits: |
3 semester credits |
| Prerequisites: |
ENG Composition 1108 or equivalent, with a grade of
C or better |
| Meets (MnTC) Minnesota Transfer
Curriculum Goal #1: |
To develop writers and speakers who use the English
language effectively and who read, write, speak, and listen
critically. As a base, all students should complete introductory
communication requirements early in their collegiate studies.
Writing competency is an ongoing process to be reinforced through
writing-intensive courses and writing across the curriculum.
Speaking and listening skills need reinforcement through multiple
opportunities for interpersonal communication, public speaking, and
discussion. |
| Competency for MnTC Goal #1: |
- Understand/demonstrate the writing and speaking
processes through invention, organization, drafting, revision,
editing and presentation.
- Locate, evaluate, and synthesize
in a responsible manner material
from diverse sources and points of
view.
- Select appropriate communication choices for specific audiences.
- Construct logical and coherent arguments.
- Use authority, point-of-view, and individual voice and style in
their writing and speaking.
- Employ syntax and usage appropriate to academic disciplines and
the professional world.
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| Meets MnTC Goal #2 |
To develop thinkers who are able to unify factual, creative,
rational, and value-sensitive modes of thought. Critical thinking
will be taught and used throughout the general education curriculum
in order to develop students’ awareness of their own thinking and
problem-solving procedures. To integrate new skills into their
customary ways of thinking, students must be actively engaged in
practicing thinking skills and applying them to open-ended problems. |
| Competency for MnTC Goal #2: |
- Gather factual information and apply it to a given problem in a
manner that is relevant, clear, comprehensive, and conscious of
possible bias in the information selected.
- Imagine and seek out a variety of possible goals, assumptions,
interpretations, or perspectives which can give alternative meanings
or solutions to given situations or problems.
- Analyze the logical connections among the facts, goals, and
implicit assumptions relevant to a problem or claim; generate and
evaluate implications that follow from them.
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Course Description: |
Emphasizes critical analysis of fiction or nonfiction texts, at
least one book-length, resulting in a research paper that reflects
analysis and synthesis of multiple sources.
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| Outcomes: |
- Identify, summarize, evaluate, and synthesize material from
diverse sources, culminating in a paper demonstrating research
techniques.
- Construct logical and coherent arguments which analyze literary
and nonfiction texts.
- Show they understand authority, point-of-view, audience awareness,
and individual voice/style in writing.
- Use syntax and usage appropriate to academic disciplines and the
professional world.
- Apply factual information to a given problem in a manner that is
relevant, clear, comprehensive, and conscious of the bias in
information selected.
- Distinguish the logical connections between facts, goals, and
assumptions relevant to a problem, and evaluate claims which may be
said to follow from them.
- Demonstrate critical thinking and problem solving skills.
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| Topics: |
- Strategies for textual and analysis and critical reading 30%
- Research strategies and evaluation of sources 20%
- Development of an effective thesis idea 5%
- Construction of effective support for literary interpretation or
position on nonfiction text. 20%
- Documentation using an appropriate method. 5%
- Techniques for revising and editing. 20%
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| Outcome Measures: |
- Formal & informal essays
- Revisions tests/quizzes
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