Project Outline with Definitions

Rhetorical Knowledge

·        Focus on a purpose

Definition:  To be determined to present a point.  To stay on topic and task.

Explanation:

·        Adopt appropriate voice, tone, and level of formality

Definition:  Using a professional voice with the right language for the situation.

·        Write in several genres

Definition:  To be able to write different types of essays and documents.

Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing

·        Understand a writing assignment as a series of tasks, including finding, evaluating,  analyzing, and synthesizing appropriate primary and secondary sources

Definition:  Writing is lots of steps, including locating, thinking about, and combining the right sources.

·        Integrate their own ideas with those of others

Definition:  Combining ideas of multiple perspectives into your essay.

   

Processes

·        Be aware that it usually takes multiple drafts to create and complete a successful text

Definition:  Lots of tries are necessary to complete an academic essay.

·        Develop flexible strategies for generating, revising, editing, and proof-reading

Definition:  Be able to create, fix and present our ideas. 

·        Learn to critique their own and others' works

Definition:  Make decisions that improve our and others’ written expressions.

Knowledge of Conventions

·        Practice appropriate means of documenting their work

Define:  Giving credit where credit is due in the right format.

·        Control such surface features as syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

Define:  Be able to write clearly and cleanly.