The content, assignments, and assessments for this course are aligned to the following learning outcomes:
Module 1: Rhetorical Reading
Define and evaluate strategies for rhetorical reading and building vocabulary
- Define and identify rhetorical context
- Identify active reading strategies
- Use context clues and other reading strategies to learn and retain new words
Module 2: Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay
Recognize and evaluate strategies for moving beyond the five-paragraph essay
- Recognize characteristics of organically structured essays
- Recognize and evaluate effective paragraphs
- Identify successful strategies for writing effective introductions and conclusions
Module 3: Readability
Recognize and resolve readability errors
- Critique the use of apostrophes
- Critique the use of semicolons and colons
- Critique the use of commas
- Critique passages, revising for run-on sentences and fragments
Module 4: Analysis
Evaluate keys to successful analysis
- Define analysis
- Recognize and evaluate keys to successful analytic writing
- Identify and apply different types of analytic processes
Module 5: Rhetorical Appeals
Recognize and evaluate rhetorical appeals
- Recognize and establish appeals to logos
- Recognize and evaluate appeals to pathos
- Recognize and establish appeals to ethos
Module 6: Academic Argument
Evaluate keys to successful argument
- Evaluate argumentative thesis statements
- Evaluate logical fallacies in argument
- Evaluate rhetorical approaches to building common ground
- Evaluate strategies for rebuttal and refutation of counterargument
Module 7: Evaluating Sources
Evaluate the quality and reliability of sources
- Identify and differentiate different types of sources
- Evaluate methods to assess the quality of print sources
- Evaluate methods to assess the quality of online sources
- Evaluate methods to assess the quality of multimedia sources
Module 8: Using Sources
Define and evaluate using sources
- Identify the conventions of source integration
- Evaluate applications of paraphrase, summary, and quotation
- Identify the conventions of citation and references
- Establish credibility when using sources
Module 9: Multimodality
Define and apply principles of multimodality
- Define multimodality
- Define and evaluate remediation and remix
