Learning Outcomes
What You'll Be Able to Do
- ✓Identify and analyze the rhetorical situation of any text (purpose, audience, context, genre, stance) and produce writing clearly adapted to a specific rhetorical situation
- ✓Read texts closely and analytically, identifying argument, evidence, assumptions, and rhetorical strategies, and summarize or respond to complex texts with accuracy
- ✓Construct a well-reasoned written argument with a clear, debatable thesis, structured body paragraphs using CER, addressed counterarguments, and a synthesizing conclusion
- ✓Locate, evaluate, and integrate credible academic sources using the CRAAP Test and library databases, correctly citing them in MLA 9th and APA 7th edition format
- ✓Demonstrate the recursive writing process: use prewriting strategies, produce multiple drafts, give and receive substantive peer feedback, and apply meaningful revision
- ✓Apply standard rules of grammar, mechanics, punctuation, and spelling; produce varied sentence structures; and edit for clarity and coherence
- ✓Compose writing for digital and multimodal contexts, demonstrating awareness of how visual and digital elements shape meaning and audience response
- ✓Reflect metacognitively on the development of one's own writing through self-assessment of growth, challenges, and goals across the course