Learning Outcomes

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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

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