Description
Overview
For this Written Response Assessment, you will pre-write using a specific pre-writing strategy of your choice. You will then use your pre-writing and all other available resources to demonstrate your ability to write coherent sentences and paragraphs by writing a paragraph at least 275 words in length related to a local community issue.
Assessment Submission Length: One Pre-Writing Document and one 275-word paragraph.
Professional Skill: Information Literacy is assessed in this Competency.
This Assessment requires submission of two (2) documents, a Pre-Writing Document and a Paragraph.
Save the Pre-Writing file as EC1002_ prewriting_firstinitial_lastname (for example, EC1002_prewriting_J_Smith).
Save the Paragraph file as EC1002_ paragraph_firstinitial_lastname (for example, EC1002_paragraph_J_Smith).
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Instructions
Before submitting your Assessment, carefully review the rubric. This is the same rubric the assessor will use to evaluate your submission and it provides detailed criteria describing how to achieve or master the Competency. Many students find that understanding the requirements of the Assessment and the rubric criteria help them direct their focus and use their time most productively.
Rubric
Access the following to complete this Assessment:
Developing Coherent Sentences Unit Summary
Academic Writing Expectations Checklist
Taking Action in Your Community Project Overview
Taking Action In Your Community- Part I: Pre-Writing
What good is having knowledge and ideas if you don’t also have the skill needed to convey what you know? An important first step in being able to convey ideas is to develop coherent sentences and paragraphs. In order to so, you should ask yourself these questions:
Why am I writing?
For whom am I writing?
These will be the guiding questions as you pre-write and use your pre-writing to develop strong paragraphs and sentences.
Select and research two local issues that are important to you.
Identify two social challenges of importance to you, and research the issues, people, and locations that contribute to the each challenge. Ideally, the challenges you select affect your local community. (Note that you will select from one of these topics in Competency EC1003 to begin the process of outlining an argumentative essay. You may wish to review the Taking Action in Your Community Project Overview in advance of selecting your two topics for this assessment).
For example, a student in southern California might select the Alcohol Beach Ban in San Diego, which discontinued the consumption of alcohol on local beaches in San Diego, CA. Why is that important, and what effect did it have on its community?
Choose local issues of that caliber on which to base your work. The issue you choose must relate to an action, not a fact. For example, you might argue for or against the local government banning alcohol consumption at the beach (an action), but not for or against the existence of the public consuming alcohol in public spaces (a fact).
Generate ideas and impose organization around your research results using one or more Pre-Writing Strategies.
These strategies include:
Mapping
Outlining
Freewriting
Clustering
Be sure to capture your Pre-Writing work in a Word document so you can submit it as part of your Assessment Submission.
Write a 275-word paragraph in which you do the following:
Select one of the social challenges you researched from your pre-writing.
Summarize why the challenge you selected is the most relevant to you personally.
Explain why the challenge you selected has the best potential for transformation into a persuasive topic for EC1005 Competency Assessment.
