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Outcomes for Basic Writing 2, WR 95

 Outcome 1: Demonstrate control and understanding of the writing process: generating ideas, organizing ideas, drafting, revising and editing, including awareness of a variety of strategies for stages in the writing process.

 Outcome 2: Demonstrate control over the basic structure of an essay, including demonstrating control over a variety of options for introductory, body, and concluding paragraphs.

 Outcome 3: Be able to maintain focus and coherence for essays of at least 1000 words, including using a thesis statement, topic sentences for body paragraphs and effective transitions within and between paragraphs.

 Outcome 4: Demonstrate awareness of different audiences, including those of college level, and purposes and show control of writing strategies--including control of voice, tone and appropriate word choice--to address those audiences and purposes.

Outcome 5: Produce essays containing a variety of sentence lengths and structures, including some complex sentences.

Outcome 6: Edit one’s own writing for mechanical and grammatical errors, producing work that is substantially free from both minor surface errors and major sentence errors.

Outcome 7: Complete appropriate written peer reviews of student essay drafts, including suggestions for revision and editing.

 Outcome 8: Be able to use critical reading to distinguish among general ideas, specific evidence and analysis of evidence and to apply the distinctions to one’s own writing, including the incorporation of at least one source as part of the writing process.

Outcome 9: Understand and avoid plagiarism, including demonstrating control of basic documentation principles in a summary or other written assignment.

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