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OUTCOME
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- Produce competent and stylistically correct technical and professional documents appropriate for employment as a professional writer or editor.
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Methods of Assessment
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- Written Projects: Before the end of their final required ENC course, students submit to the instructor an electronic packet of 2 written projects done in any of the ENC courses taken at USF-SMC. These two pieces are selected by the students as their best demonstrations of the degree outcomes. During fall and spring semesters, the ENC instructors send the packets to the IR office, where they are rendered anonymous. During the summer, a team of two Professional Writing faculty members assesses a significant sample of packets and rates their performance of the outcomes on a rubric.
- Faculty Assessment of Outcomes Survey: At the end of every semester, instructors in all English (ENC) courses fill out scoring rubric that first rates the degree of emphasis placed on this outcome by the course, and then rates students’ performance of this competency in that particular course.
- Internship: Workplace sponsors for students placed in ENC 4931 Internships score the students’ performance of this competency in their internship assignments.
- Student Assessment of Outcomes Survey: Students in all English (ENC) courses are surveyed about the degree of emphasis placed on this outcome in the course and how well they feel the course helped them to develop this competency.
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OUTCOME
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- Demonstrate proficiency in sophisticated use of the computer and the tools and technologies of contemporary professional/technical communications appropriate for employment as a professional writer or editor.
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Methods of Assessment
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- Written Projects: Before the end of their final required ENC course, students submit to the instructor an electronic packet of 2 written projects done in any of the ENC courses taken at USF-SMC. These two pieces are selected by the students as their best demonstrations of the degree outcomes. During fall and spring semesters, the ENC instructors send the packets to the IR office, where they are rendered anonymous. During the summer, a team of two Professional Writing faculty members assesses a significant sample of packets and rates their performance of the outcomes on a rubric.
- Faculty Assessment of Outcomes Survey: At the end of every semester, instructors in all English (ENC) courses fill out scoring rubric that first rates the degree of emphasis placed on this outcome by the course, and then rates students’ performance of this competency in that particular course.
- Internship: Workplace sponsors for students placed in ENC 4931 Internships score the students’ performance of this competency in their internship assignments.
- Student Assessment of Outcomes Survey: Students in all English (ENC) courses are surveyed about the degree of emphasis placed on this outcome in the course and how well they feel the course helped them to develop this competency.
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OUTCOME
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- Revise and edit both their own work for publication and the collaborative efforts of their colleagues.
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Methods of Assessment
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- Written Projects: Before the end of their final required ENC course, students submit to the instructor an electronic packet of 2 written projects done in any of the ENC courses taken at USF-SMC. These two pieces are selected by the students as their best demonstrations of the degree outcomes. During fall and spring semesters, the ENC instructors send the packets to the IR office, where they are rendered anonymous. During the summer, a team of two Professional Writing faculty members assesses a significant sample of packets and rates their performance of the outcomes on a rubric.
- Faculty Assessment of Outcomes Survey: At the end of every semester, instructors in all English (ENC) courses fill out scoring rubric that first rates the degree of emphasis placed on this outcome by the course, and then rates students’ performance of this competency in that particular course.
- Internship: Workplace sponsors for students placed in ENC 4931 Internships score the students’ performance of this competency in their internship assignments.
- Student Assessment of Outcomes Survey: Students in all English (ENC) courses are surveyed about the degree of emphasis placed on this outcome in the course and how well they feel the course helped them to develop this competency.
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OUTCOME
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- Perform thorough, critical, and efficient research in preparing their written projects.
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Methods of Assessment
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- Written Projects: Before the end of their final required ENC course, students submit to the instructor an electronic packet of 2 written projects done in any of the ENC courses taken at USF-SMC. These two pieces are selected by the students as their best demonstrations of the degree outcomes. During fall and spring semesters, the ENC instructors send the packets to the IR office, where they are rendered anonymous. During the summer, a team of two Professional Writing faculty members assesses a significant sample of packets and rates their performance of the outcomes on a rubric.
- Faculty Assessment of Outcomes Survey: At the end of every semester, instructors in all English (ENC) courses fill out scoring rubric that first rates the degree of emphasis placed on this outcome by the course, and then rates students’ performance of this competency in that particular course.
- Internship: Workplace sponsors for students placed in ENC 4931 Internships score the students’ performance of this competency in their internship assignments.
- Student Assessment of Outcomes Survey: Students in all English (ENC) courses are surveyed about the degree of emphasis placed on this outcome in the course and how well they feel the course helped them to develop this competency.
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OUTCOME
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- Communicate technical/professional data to an audience, using oral and computer presentation skills.
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Methods of Assessment
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- Written Projects: Before the end of their final required ENC course, students submit to the instructor an electronic packet of 2 written projects done in any of the ENC courses taken at USF-SMC. These two pieces are selected by the students as their best demonstrations of the degree outcomes. During fall and spring semesters, the ENC instructors send the packets to the IR office, where they are rendered anonymous. During the summer, a team of two Professional Writing faculty members assesses a significant sample of packets and rates their performance of the outcomes on a rubric.
- Faculty Assessment of Outcomes Survey: At the end of every semester, instructors in all English (ENC) courses fill out scoring rubric that first rates the degree of emphasis placed on this outcome by the course, and then rates students’ performance of this competency in that particular course.
- Internship: Workplace sponsors for students placed in ENC 4931 Internships score the students’ performance of this competency in their internship assignments.
- Student Assessment of Outcomes Survey: Students in all English (ENC) courses are surveyed about the degree of emphasis placed on this outcome in the course and how well they feel the course helped them to develop this competency.
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OUTCOME
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- Work in collaboration with other writers in production of documents.
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Methods of Assessment
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- Written Projects: Before the end of their final required ENC course, students submit to the instructor an electronic packet of 2 written projects done in any of the ENC courses taken at USF-SMC. These two pieces are selected by the students as their best demonstrations of the degree outcomes. During fall and spring semesters, the ENC instructors send the packets to the IR office, where they are rendered anonymous. During the summer, a team of two Professional Writing faculty members assesses a significant sample of packets and rates their performance of the outcomes on a rubric.
- Faculty Assessment of Outcomes Survey: At the end of every semester, instructors in all English (ENC) courses fill out scoring rubric that first rates the degree of emphasis placed on this outcome by the course, and then rates students’ performance of this competency in that particular course.
- Internship: Workplace sponsors for students placed in ENC 4931 Internships score the students’ performance of this competency in their internship assignments.
- Student Assessment of Outcomes Survey: Students in all English (ENC) courses are surveyed about the degree of emphasis placed on this outcome in the course and how well they feel the course helped them to develop this competency.
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