Course Learning Outcomes

  • acknowledge your and others’ range of linguistic differences as resources, and draw on
    those resources to develop rhetorical sensibility
  • enhance strategies for reading, drafting, revising, editing, and self-assessment
  • negotiate your own writing goals and audience expectations regarding conventions of
    genre, medium, and rhetorical situation
  • develop and engage in the collaborative and social aspects of writing processes
  • engage in genre analysis and multimodal composing to explore effective writing across disciplinary contexts and beyond
  • formulate and articulate a stance through and in your writing
  • practice using various library resources, online databases, and the Internet to locate
    sources appropriate to your writing projects
  • strengthen your source use practices (including evaluating, integrating, quoting,
    paraphrasing, summarizing, synthesizing, analyzing, and citing sources)