Week 2's Reflection: ABCD: This is Another New Beginning in My Teaching Experience

There is a saying, "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail". I think this statement is undebatable when I connect it with my learning experience. I just realize that I have never made very good learning objectives for my classes which can cover all aspects from cognitive, affective, psychomotoric, and other elements. After reading the link given by Donna, my super supportive professor, about Pennsylvania State University's ABCD style (Audience-Behavior-Condition-Degree), I said this is what I've been looking for. I need to create a learning objective in one sentence that can cover all aspects of learning. 

source: http://www.colourbox.com/image/abcd-roses-flower-alphabet-isolated-on-white-image-2064020

Here is what I made from the ABCD concept:

Description:
My students are first year university students majoring in Law, Business and Economics, and Engineering who are second language speakers of English. They are joining classes and degree courses run in English called International Program. They are studying English and academic skills such as academic writing, reading, presentation, and public speaking eight hours a week.

ABCD Objective:
After discussing about the good ways to write English sentences and quotation based on APA referencing style (C), the students (A) are expected to write paragraph with good grammatical range and accuracy, coherence and cohesion, and lexical resourc (B) for at least 250 words.
Quoted from: http://www.nicenet.org/ICA/class/conf_topic_show.cfm?topic_id=878266

I just realize that I good planning will help me to have good processs, assessment, and outcome.
I think I will keep doing ABCD for any future classes that I will have.