1. What Your Students Do in English 101 Teaching Strategies for Research, Critical Thinking, and Avoiding Plagiarism

2. English 101 SLOs 1.Analyze college-level prose of varying lengths. 2.Compose college-level essays of varying lengths (1000- 1500 words) in response to college-level reading assignments. 3.Assess and follow accurately MLA research and documentation guidelines.

3. Bloom’s Taxonomy (New)

4. Bloom’s Taxonomy (New) Action Words

5. Critical Thinking “Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action” (“Defining Critical Thinking”).

6. Research Research is the “[c]areful study of a given subject, field, or problem, undertaken to discover facts or principles” (“Research”).

7. Avoiding Plagiarism Plagiarism is “the uncredited use (both intentional and unintentional) of somebody else's words or ideas” (Stolley et al.).

8. The English 101 Syllabus  Instructor Contact Information  Office Hours  Academic Policies including Plagiarism Statement  Academic Accommodation Statement  SLOs  Required Texts  Grading Rubric  Grading Scale (A > 90, B > 80, etc.)  Course Outline  Research Paper Requirements (6-8 pages) ...

9. ENG101 COR 1.Go to www.laccd.edu. 2.Select “Faculty and Staff.” 3.Select “Office of Curriculum Support” 4.Select “Electronic Curriculum Development (ECD) System.” 5.Select “Find a Course.” 6.For Campus, select “Pierce”; for Subject Name, select “English”; for Course Number, enter “101.”

10. Works Cited “Defining Critical Thinking.” The Critical Thinking Community. The Foundation for Critical Thinking, 2015, criticalthinking.org/pages/defining-critical-thinking/410. “Research." American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. 5th edition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing, 19 Aug. 2016, thefreedictionary.com/research. Stolley, Karl, et al. “Avoiding Plagiarism.” Purdue Online Writing Lab. 10 Oct. 2014, owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/01/.