A.
SELF-ASSESSMENT SURVEY
Below you will find a list of Writing 121 Exit Competencies
(or learning outcomes): that is, a list of targeted skills and learning
outcomes that students are expected to have attained upon successful
completion of WR 121 at COCC. Whether
or not you have completed WR 121 at COCC, please complete the following
survey.
·
Rate your current writing skills in each category using this 5-point
scale:
5 = Excellent/A; 4
= Very Good/B; 3 =
Adequate/C; 2 = Weak/D; 1=Poor/F
·
Comment: Feel free to comment on the Competency in the space provided.
[College Essay Writing, Reading, & Analysis
Skills:]
___Competency 1:
Write essays that use a thesis to
establish control over content; supply relevant and adequate supporting
details; employ the organizational strategies of effective beginnings,
transitions, and endings; and conform to standard edited English.
Comments:
___Competency 2: Achieve Competency 1 under time constraints
(during the WR 121 final exam), while conforming to expectations of an
assigned topic and of edited English appropriate for timed writing.
Comments:
___Competency 3:
Demonstrate the ability to use a variety
of expository essay patterns, such as definition, classification, analysis,
problem-solution, and comparison-contrast.
Comments:
___Competency 4:
Employ observation; personal experience;
active, responsive reading as the basis for essay content.
Comments:
___Competency 5:
Employ the responsible use of sources
(without plagiarizing) as the basis for essay content.
Comments:
___Competency 6:
Demonstrate, in an essay, a sustained
style employing rhetorically effective tone, persona, diction, idiom, and
syntax.
Comments:
___Competency 7:
Use critical reading and writing to
analyze and synthesize ideas in an academic writing sample, identifying
rhetorical patterns, major assertions, and supporting details.
Comments:
[Teamwork, Self-Assessment, Revision &
Editing Skills:]
___Competency 8:
Complete appropriate written critical peer
reviews of student essay drafts, including suggestions for revision and
editing.
Comments:
___Competency 9:
Complete at least one (formal or informal)
written review of the student's own writing strengths and weaknesses,
including effective self-prescriptions for improvement.
Comments:
[Writing Process Skills:]
___Competency 10:
Demonstrate, monitor, and articulate the
complete idiosyncratic process that the individual writer uses to complete an
essay, including such steps as invention, thesis formation, organization,
drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading.
Comments:
[Communication & Rhetorical Analysis Skills]
___Competency 11: Demonstrate an awareness of a variety of
purposes and audiences.
Comments:
B.
YOUR LEARNING STYLE:
If you took Writing 121 at COCC (and/or a similar writing course
elsewhere), please respond to the following questions:
1. Which
aspects of WR 121 (or other past writing courses) were most useful in helping
you improve or develop your writing skills this term? And, briefly, why?
2. Which
aspects of WR 121 (or other past writing courses) were least helpful to you?
Again, briefly, why?
C.
OTHER COMMENTS FOR CORA:
Here, please
feel free to comment further on your writing background, skills, attitudes,
goals, and/or offer Cora any other comments that may help her help you in WR
122 this term:
