At the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Use invention, drafting, revising, and editing strategies to write academic papers
- Write claims that are appropriate for assignment requirements
- Effectively organize paragraphs to suit the rhetorical situation
- Support claims and generalizations with adequate and relevant details, examples, explanation, and evidence
- Analyze and evaluate the use of rhetorical appeals in a variety of nonfiction texts
- Apply the principles of rhetoric in student writing assignments
- Correctly integrate and document outside sources through signal phrases, parenthetical citations, and a works cited page
- Apply self- and peer- review strategies for revision and improvement
- Create and share a multimodal project
- Utilize standard grammar, spelling, and mechanics for clarity, tone, and style
1. Rhetoric: Style, strategies, devices, tools, and appeals; relationship to audience
2. Research: Credibility, integration, citation and documentation, research as inquiry, types of sources, role of research librarian
3. Composition: Focus, coherence, development, grammar, spelling, and punctuation, introductions, body paragraphs, and conclusions
4. Reading: Engagement with texts: annotation, outlining, vocabulary; critical analysis of texts including non-fiction, academic writing
5. Criticality: Intellectual empathy, originality in thought, context of social and cultural contexts, diverse viewpoints
6. Multimodality: Integration of visual, textual, and oral elements; methods of engaging audience; rhetorical awareness