Learning Outcomes

The content, assignments, and assessments for this course are aligned to the following learning outcomes:

Module: Define reflective thinking and writing
- Recognize reflection as an intellectual process
  - Define reflection as an intellectual process
  - Identify knowledge types embedded within reflection
- Identify conventions of reflective writing
  - Recognize possible structures for reflective writing
  - Recognize component skills of reflective writing
Module: Define and evaluate strategies for rhetorical reading and building vocabulary.
- Define and identify rhetorical contexts
  - Define the concept of rhetorical context
  - Identify writers’ rhetorical contexts
  - Identify readers’/responders’ rhetorical contexts
- Identify active reading strategies
  - Identify active reading strategies
  - Evaluate active reading strategies
- Evaluate strategies for retaining new words
  - Identify strategies for using context clues
  - Evaluate strategies for retaining new words
Module: Recognize and evaluate strategies for moving beyond the five-paragraph essay
- Recognize characteristics of organically-structured essays.
  - Differentiate between formulaic and organic structure.
  - Identify characteristics of organically-structured essays.
- Recognize and evaluate effective paragraphs
  - Recognize techniques for effective paragraph construction
  - Evaluate paragraph construction
- Identify successful strategies for writing introductions and conclusions
  - Identify successful strategies for writing introductions and conclusions
  - Evaluate successful strategies for writing introductions and conclusions
Module: Recognize strategies for revision
- Identify strategies for revising for content
  - Recognize rhetorical context in relation to content
  - Identify strategies for development
- Identify the strategies for revising for structure
  - Recognize rhetorical context in relation to structure
  - Identify strategies for revising for paragraph structure
  - Identify strategies for revising for global structure
  - Evaluate strategies for arranging ideas
- Identify strategies for revising for style
  - Recognize rhetorical context in relation to style
  - Identify strategies for revising for style
  - Evaluate strategies for revising for style
- Identify strategies for revising for grammar and mechanics
  - Recognize common grammar and mechanical errors
  - Demonstrate ability to proofread
Module: Evaluate keys to successful analysis
- Define analysis
  - Identify the domain of analysis
  - Recognize the barriers to analysis
- Recognize and evaluate keys to successful writing
  - Recognize keys to successful analysis writing
  - Evaluate keys to successful analysis writing
- Identify and apply different types of analytic processes
  - Identify different types of analytic processes
  - Apply different types of analytic processes
Module: Recognize and Evaluate Rhetorical Appeals
- Recognize and establish appeals to logos
  - Recognize appeals to logos
  - Evaluate appeals to logos
- Recognize and evaluate appeals to pathos
  - Recognize appeals to pathos
  - Evaluate appeals to pathos
- Recognize and establish appeals to ethos
  - Recognize appeals to ethos
  - Recognize strategies for establishing appeals to ethos
Module: Evaluate keys to successful argument
- Evaluate an arguable thesis
  - Recognize an arguable thesis
  - Evaluate an argumentative thesis
- Evaluate logical fallacies
  - Recognize common logical fallacies
  - Evaluate logical fallacies in texts
- Evaluate rhetorical approaches to building common ground
  - Recognize rhetorical approaches to building common ground
  - Evaluate rhetorical approaches to building common ground
- Evaluate strategies for rebuttal and refutation of counterargument
  - Recognize strategies for rebuttal and refutation of counterargument
  - Evaluate strategies for rebuttal and refutation of counter-argument
Module: Evaluate the quality and reliability of sources
- Differentiate types of sources
  - Differentiate types of sources
- Evaluate methods to assess the quality of print sources
  - Apply the CRAAP analysis method to evaluate print sources
- Evaluate methods to assess the quality of online sources
  - Apply the CRAAP analysis method to evaluate online sources
- Evaluate methods to assess the quality of multimedia sources
  - Apply the CRAAP analysis method to evaluate multimedia sources
Module: Define and Evaluate Using Sources
- Identify the conventions of source integration
  - Identify the five components of the “source sandwich”
- Evaluate applications of paraphrase, summary, and quotation
  - Differentiate among paraphrase, summary, and quotation
  - Evaluate application of paraphrase, summary, and quotation
- Identify the conventions of citation and references.
  - Identify the conventions of citation and references
  - Interpret the conventions of citation and references
- Establishing Credibility when Using Sources
  - Recognize markers of credibility in writing
  - Differentiate among the markers of credibility in writing
Module: Define and apply principles of multimodality.
- Define multimodality
  - Define multimodality
  - Recognize different modes
- Define and evaluate remediation and remix
  - Define Remediation
  - Define Remix
  - Evaluate attribution within remix
Module: Recognize and resolve readability errors
- Critique the standard uses of apostrophes.
  - Recognize the standard uses of apostrophes
  - Demonstrate the standard uses of apostrophes
- Critique the use of semicolons and colons.
  - Differentiate the standard uses of semicolons and colons
  - Demonstrate the standard uses of semicolons
  - Demonstrate the standard uses of colons
- Critique the use of commas.
  - Recognize the standard uses of commas
  - Demonstrate the standard uses of commas
- Critique passages, revising for run-on sentences and fragments.
  - Recognize run-on sentences
  - Recognize sentence fragments
  - Demonstrate revision for run-on sentences
  - Demonstrate revision for sentence fragments

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