The content, assignments, and assessments for this course are aligned to the following learning outcomes. You can view the entire list of learning outcomes here.

• Module 1: Success Skills
  • Identify common habits that lead to success in college
  • Write professionally and effectively in your college communications
  • Effectively use digital tools to convey your ideas
  • Recognize the importance of critical thinking and reflection as an intellectual process
• Module 2: Reading Strategies
  • Analyze and utilize general reading strategies
  • Utilize specialized reading strategies
  • Define and identify rhetorical context
  • Use context clues and other reading strategies to learn and retain new words
  • Analyze various types of reading material
• Module 3: Writing Essentials
  • Identify, analyze, and create effective thesis statements
  • Recognize and evaluate effective paragraphs
  • Examine how to analyze and appeal to your audience in your writing
  • Analyze effective sentences, including the use of the active voice
• Module 4: Writing in College
  • Explain common college-level writing assignments and effective writing techniques
  • Examine characteristics of common essay assignments
  • Examine characteristics of writing narratives
  • Evaluate multimodal text
• Module 5: Grammar Essentials
  • Analyze the use of punctuation marks
  • Analyze the use of apostrophes
  • Analyze the use of commas
  • Examine the use of semicolons and colons
  • Critique passages, revising for run-on sentences and fragments
• Module 6: The Writing Process
  • Describe topic selection activities
  • Analyze prewriting activities
  • Describe ways to find evidence in support of a claim
  • Analyze essay organizational techniques
  • Evaluate drafting techniques
• Module 7: The Writing Process—Revising and Proofreading
  • Analyze revision activities
  • Evaluate revision strategies
  • Evaluate editing and proofreading activities
• Module 8: Analysis and Synthesis
  • Examine the basics of analysis
  • Recognize and evaluate keys to successful analytic writing
  • Identify and apply different types of analytic processes
  • Examine strategies for successful synthesis
• Module 9: Academic Argument
  • Evaluate argumentative essays and thesis statements
  • Examine the structure of logical arguments and types of supporting claims
  • Describe and apply the rhetorical appeals of logos, pathos, and ethos
  • Evaluate logical fallacies in argument
  • Evaluate strategies for rebuttal and refutation of counterargument
• Module 10: Research—Finding and Evaluating Sources
  • Describe research writing and the importance of starting with a research question
  • Evaluate methods for finding various types of sources using search engines and databases
• Module 11: Research—Using Sources
  • Synthesize outside sources with your own through effective quotes, paraphrasing, and summarizing
  • Evaluate concerns about plagiarism and how to demonstrate academic integrity
  • Examine MLA documentation formatting and practices
  • Examine APA documentation formatting and practices
• Module 12: Grammar Basics
  • Understand the use of nouns and pronouns
  • Analyze the use of verbs
  • Analyze the use of other parts of speech, including adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, and articles
  • Analyze sentence structure