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
