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: Asking Questions
  • Explore the connection between research and discourse communities
  • Reflect on your research experiences and priorities
  • Identify the key concerns and methodologies of various academic disciplines
• Module 2: Academic Argument
  • Evaluate the elements of academic argument
  • Evaluate how academic arguments use evidence
  • Break down and build up an academic argument
• Module 3: Critical Reading
  • Explain tips for reading effectively in an academic context
  • Describe how genre conventions shape and are shaped by writers’ practices and readers’ expectations
  • Write summaries and critiques using analytical strategies and techniques
• Module 4: Developing a Research Writing Project
  • Evaluate ways to plan a research project
  • Use backward design principles to plan a research writing project
  • Evaluate strategies for preliminary research on a topic
• Module 5: Locating and Evaluating Sources
  • Identify strategies for analyzing the credibility and standpoint of a source
  • Evaluate methods for finding various types of sources using search engines and databases
  • Identify techniques for keeping track of your research
• Module 6: Integrating Sources
  • Articulate key principles of academic ethics and integrity
  • Apply strategies to quote, paraphrase, or summarize source content
  • Recognize and apply common citation conventions
• Module 7: Drafting a research paper
  • Identify strategies to begin a research writing project
  • Identify the hallmarks of an effective thesis statement
  • Evaluate strategies to write with care and awareness
  • Recognize qualities of effective introductions, conclusions, and transitions
• Module 8: Revision
  • Recognize strategies to revise for coherence and clarity
  • Recognize strategies to revise for clarity
  • Recognize strategies for effective peer revision
  • Recognize strategies to proofread a research paper
• Module 9: Beyond the Research Paper
  • Evaluate strategies for creating and delivering presentations
  • Evaluate strategies for creating multimodal presentations
  • Evaluate journalistic writing
  • Evaluate various modes of writing common in professional life
•  Module 10: Working with literature
  • Identify key reading strategies for working with fiction
  • Identify key reading strategies for working with poetry
  • Identify key reading strategies for working with drama and film
  • Identify key strategies for working with literary criticism
  • Plan and write a literary analysis essay