Goals:
English 101 Goals
• Students will understand and use the processes of writing and revision
as tools for analyzing topics and evaluating their own writing.
• Students will learn to collaborate productively.
• Students will be exposed to a variety of rhetorical strategies and processes
of analyzing and will understand the advantages associated with composing
in different print, visual, and digital media.
• Students will understand how to use writing strategies and processes to
analyze and write about issues aimed at different audiences and different
purposes.
• Students will understand their part in the university discourse community
and how its written conventions operate.
• Students will begin to learn the basics of citation formatting.
• Students will become conscious of their own development as writers.
English 102 Goals
• Students will understand the elements of formal argumentation and the
differences between Aristotelian, Rogerian, and post-modern argumentation.
• Students will apply the principles of formal argumentation in writing
and understand that various disciplines apply these principles in different
ways.
• Students will learn to locate source material both in the library and
online, read and evaluate this material critically, analyze and summarize
points of view and assumptions, and synthesize sources in order to write
extended papers incorporating source material.
• Students will understand that citation formats vary from discipline to
discipline and be able to use at least one of them correctly.
• Students will understand that academic research is ethical and be able
to understand ethical paraphrasing and summarizing.
English 103 Goals
• Students will understand and use the processes of writing and revision
as tools for analyzing topics and evaluating their own writing.
• Students will learn to collaborate productively.
• Students will be exposed to a variety of rhetorical strategies and processes
of analyzing; they will also understand the advantages associated with composing
in different print, visual, and digital media.
• Students will understand how to use writing strategies and processes to
analyze and write about issues aimed at different audiences and for different
purposes.
• Students will understand their part in the university discourse community
and how its written conventions operate.
• Students will understand and apply the elements of formal argumentation in writing;
will understand the differences between Aristotelian, Rogerian, and post-modern argumentation;
and will understand that various disciplines apply these principles in different ways.
• Students will learn to locate source material both in the library and
online, read and evaluate this material critically, analyze and summarize points of view
and assumptions, and synthesize sources in order to write extended papers incorporating
source material.
• Students will be able to demonstrate the appropriate and ethical use of
academic research, understand that citation formats vary among disciplines, and
use at least one format correctly.
• Students will become conscious of their own development as writers.
English 104 Goals
• Students will understand and use the processes of writing and revision
as tools for analyzing topics and evaluating their own writing.
• Students will learn to collaborate productively.
• Students will be exposed to a variety of rhetorical strategies and processes
of analyzing; they will also understand the advantages associated with composing
in different print, visual, and digital media.
• Students will understand how to use writing strategies and processes to
analyze and write about issues aimed at different audiences and for different
purposes.
• Students will understand their part in the university discourse community
and how its written conventions operate.
• Students will understand and apply the elements of formal argumentation in writing;
will understand the differences between Aristotelian, Rogerian, and post-modern argumentation;
and will understand that various disciplines apply these principles in different ways.
• Students will learn to locate source material both in the library and
online, read and evaluate this material critically, analyze and summarize points of view
and assumptions, and synthesize sources in order to write extended papers incorporating
source material.
• Students will be able to demonstrate the appropriate and ethical use of
academic research, understand that citation formats vary among disciplines, and
use at least one format correctly.
• Students will become conscious of their own development as writers.
