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Adult Goal 2: Learners will use writing process to compose a well-organized, 200-word essay on an assigned topic within an allotted time period. WRITING

OBJECTIVES EXAMPLES
Objective A: Learners will be able to prewrite.
  • Identify task and limit topic.
  • Generate ideas using prewriting techniques such as brainstorming, clustering, freewriting, and listing.
  • Address intended audience.
Objective B: Learners will be able to compose.
  • Write on topics as assigned.
  • Refine main idea.
  • Organize material into proper essay format, i.e., introductory paragraph, body, closing paragraph.
  • Use of outlines.
  • Develop ideas with supporting details.
  • Be able to compare and contrast.
  • Use transitional signals between sentences and paragraphs.
  • Communicate thoughts, ideas, and information.
Objective C: Learners will be able to postwrite.
  • Revise for content, sequence, and language.
  • Edit for conventions of standard written English.
  • Evaluate essays using holistic criteria.

“I found that writing is another way of communication -- it gives me freedom. A freedom to become someone, to go back in time, or to put down my thoughts and feelings of today's goings on.” --Barbara G.
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