HSC 087 - Writing With Evidence

Credits: 5
LEC hours per week: 5
Using the writing process, students will focus on writing with evidence to ensure that students engage in research and inquiry to investigate topics, and to analyze, integrate, and present information. This course will meet high school English credit requirements and prepare students for Washington state standardized testing expectations.
Course Outcomes:

Intended Learning Outcomes
- Write a manageable claim.
- Search for evidence effectively using print and on-line resources.
- State and cite evidence.
- Explain how evidence supports the claim.
- Assemble evidence and explanations in complete essay.
Common Core Standards for writing addressed in this course:
- Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
- Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
- Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
- Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.
- Use technology, including the internet, to produce, publish and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information.
- Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital resources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the strengths and limitations of each source in terms of the task, purpose, and audience; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and over-reliance on any one source and following a standard format for citation.
- Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.

Course Topics:

Writing with evidence
- Making claims
- Finding and utilizing a range of outside sources
- Citing evidence
- Explaining why cited evidence links to claims
Review of grammar, sentence structure, and syntax
Using evidence to support writing in a variety of modes