Official Learning Competencies

As a student completing 1010 with a C or better, you will be able to:

1. Demonstrate understanding of and ability to read and respond to the demands of the rhetorical situation (author, audience, and subject) in both oral and written communication.

2. Read critically and analyze various types of assigned readings on the basis of structure, pattern, and meaning in order to produce original papers that show development of topic through organization (such as topic sentence, support of the central idea through details, and rhetorical patterns).

3. Invent, write, revise, edit, and rewrite formal essays in response to readings which develop appropriate rhetorical patterns (i.e., narration, example, process, comparison/contrast, classification, cause/effect, definition, argumentation) and other special function(s) (i.e., literary analysis or research) while demonstrating writing skills from process to product.

4. Produce final papers that show growth in principles of good writing, such as organization (e.g., introduction/body/conclusion or outlining), development (clarifying transitions between sentences and paragraphs), unity (connected ideas), and which demonstrate an understanding of the substance of the topic.

5. Complete at least one writing assignment that demonstrates a limited use of MLA documentation form and basic research ability.

6. Participate in collaborative work with other students via small group discussions and presentations, workshop-style classes devoted to particular issues (such as paragraph structure or voice and tone), and produce, accept, and use constructively feedback from writing instructors, other students, and other university writers/instructors to take control of your own writing.

7. Create mechanically sound papers relatively free of errors in grammar and mechanics.

You can download the Association of College & Research Libraries' book, "Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education," in multiple languages at the ACRL website:

Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education | Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) (ala.org)

This ACRL Framework lists six frames:

(1) Authority is Constructed and Contextual,

(2) Information Creation as a Process,

(3) Information has Value,

(4) Research as Inquiry,

(5) Scholarship as Conversation,

(6) Searching as Strategic Exploration.

These frames are an important base for research and writing, which makes them especially important to English courses.

For additional information about this framework you can go to the ACRL’s guide:

Toolkit - ACRL Framework for Information Literacy Toolkit - LibGuides at ACRL

Below you will see how the ACRL Framework matches the competencies for English 1010: