Course Description
English 101/107 familiarizes students with the social and situated nature of writing--that is, with the ways in which writing is tied to purpose, audience/community, and topic/content. As such, there is a heavy emphasis on community, genre, and rhetorical situation. Through informal and formal writing, students will write in several genres, analyzing how purpose, audience, and context shape research, strategies for organization, and language usage, components that will be developed further in the second semester class. In addition, the course introduces practices of research inquiry in writing. Reflection on students’ writing is also formally built into the entire course, culminating in a final portfolio.
Course Goals & Objectives
Goal 1: Rhetorical Awareness
Learn strategies for analyzing the audiences, purposes, and contexts of texts in order to strengthen reading and writing.
Student Learning Outcomes:
- 1A. Analyze a text’s genre and how that influences and guides reading and composing practices.
- 1B. Explain the purposes of, intended audiences for, and arguments in a text and how these are impacted by particular cultural, economic, and political contexts.
- 1C. Apply knowledge of rhetorical options in reading practices.
Goal 2: Critical Thinking and Composing
Use reading and writing for research, problem solving, critical thinking, action, and participation within and across different communities.
Student Learning Outcomes:
- 2A. Integrate evidence through methods such as summaries, paraphrases, quotations, and visuals.
- 2B. Support ideas or positions by discussing evidence from multiple sources.
Goal 3: Conventions
Understand how purpose, audience, and context relate to genre conventions such as structure, style, design, usage, mechanics, and citation practices.
Student Learning Outcomes:
- 3A. Follow contextually appropriate conventions for language use related to areas such as grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
- 3B. Apply contextually appropriate citation conventions.
Goal 4: Revision
Understand composing processes as flexible and collaborative, drawing upon multiple strategies.
Student Learning Outcomes:
- 4A. adapt composing and revision processes for a variety of technologies and modalities.
- 4B. produce multiple revisions on global and local levels.
- 4C. suggest useful global and local revisions to other writers.
- 4D. identify the collaborative and social aspects of writing processes.
Goal 5: Reflection
Use meaningful, ongoing reflection to inform writing processes, foster the development of a writing identity, and think ahead to future writing situations.
Student Learning Outcomes:
- 5A. Narrate their processes and progress as writers throughout Foundations Writing courses.
- 5B. Recognize and articulate how their values, goals, and/or circumstances inform their choices as writers
- 5C. Assess how writing experiences and artifacts might influence future writing situations.
Updated 8/4/2021