First-Year Writing Program Course 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.

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.

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.

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.

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