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Apr 27, 2024
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PCADE 080 English for Washington State History (5 credits)
Course Description
This course will help you develop critical thinking, reading, and writing skills at the high school level. You will demonstrate reading comprehension and reflective thinking, and you will compose explanatory, expository, and argumentative writings.
Course Content
A. Difference between primary and secondary texts
B. Paragraphs, essays, reflective and expository writings, explanatory short answers and argumentative essays
C. Reading Apprenticeship routines
D. Proper citation style and formats; differentiating among summarizing, paraphrasing and direct quotations; avoiding plagiarism
E. Mechanics, punctuation and grammar
Student Outcomes
Apply critical thinking skills, support analysis, and reflect upon events by developing arguments and ideas through writing.
Cite evidence using disciplinary standards to represent different points of view and support claims.
Integrate primary and secondary sources to support claims and conclusions.
Apply the writing process by producing effective and rhetorically appropriate documents in order to meet communicative goals and situational context (formality, subject position, etc.).
Use computer software for academic purposes in order to compose and communicate effectively.
Evaluate the credibility of materials in order to develop information competency.
Determine the meaning and impact of words and phrases as they are used in text, including figurative and connotative meanings.
Degree Outcomes
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods. Students will use scientific methods to explore the natural world.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
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