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English 102 Exit-Level Written Competency Jim Roth’s Website Our English 102 syllabus states that,
regardless of the overall grade book average, by the end of the quarter, a
student must be writing at minimum English 102 exit-level competency to be eligible to receive a
course grade higher than a 1.9. This means that a student can have a higher grade
book average than 1.9 but be ineligible to receive it. Minimum English 102 exit-level written competency is difficult to define, but you’ve seen it if you’ve taken the time to study the student essay examples presented in the course and on my Website. Below are some general English 102
exit-level
writing requirements: English
102 exit-level writing assumes that the
basics of written English have been mastered, and that the writing does not
contain sentencing errors, commonly confused words errors, subject-verb
agreement errors, pronoun agreement errors, and the like--in
short, most everything you learned in English 101 and most everything we’ve studied to this point. English 102 exit-level
writing does not include
poorly focused essays with paragraphs that lack unity and coherence, and
wording that readers have to decipher. In addition, English 102 exit-level writing requires
far more than mentally throwing up on a page and then submitting what comes
out; and that good writing is hard work and requires the time necessary to
revise and edit thoroughly. In short,
English 102 exit-level writing always respects the reader. The skills mentioned above were supposed
to have been the focus of basic writing courses offered earlier in a
student’s education; an English 102 course will offer occasional refreshers,
as our course will, but the assumption is that a student entering English 102 has
mastered these basic writing problems. English
102 exit-level writing does not allow for careless use and haphazard
documentation of borrowed words and ideas. Instead, it requires strict
adherence to the assigned documentation format.
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