102

Course Description

English 102/108 emphasizes rhetoric and research across contexts. Through reading and discussion of content, students engage in rhetorical analysis, research, persuasion, reflection, and revision. It is designed to help students recognize and learn to write for a variety of rhetorical situations, including different audiences, purposes, contexts, and genres. Students will conduct research inquiries, find and evaluate sources, and make critically aware decisions about how best to achieve their purposes. Further, it helps students become aware of their own writing processes and adjust them to whatever demands a particular writing situation places on them.  

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: 

  • 1D. Explain how and why a text’s audiences, purposes, and contexts influence rhetorical options.
  • 1E. Adapt composing practices (including rhetorical choices) to a variety of audiences, purposes, and contexts.

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:

  • 2C.  Use a variety of research methods, including primary and/or secondary research, for purposes of inquiry.
  • 2D. evaluate the quality, appropriateness, and credibility of sources.
  • 2E. Synthesize research findings to develop arguments.
  • 2F. compose persuasive researched arguments for various audiences and purposes, and in multiple modalities.

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: 

  • 3C. Explain why genre conventions for structure, paragraphing, tone, and mechanics vary within and across genres.
  • 3D. Identify and effectively use variations in genre conventions within and/or across genres, including formats and/or design features.
  • 3E. demonstrate familiarity with the concepts of intellectual property (such as fair use and copyright) that motivate documentation conventions.

Goal 4: Revision

Understand composing processes as flexible and collaborative, drawing upon multiple strategies.

Student Learning Outcomes: 

  • 4E. evaluate and act on peer and instructor feedback to revise their texts.

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 8/21/22