Rhetorical Knowledge

Gain experience reading and composing in several genres to understand how genre conventions shape and are shaped by readers’ and writers’ practices and purposes

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Develop facility in responding to a variety of situations and contexts calling for purposeful shifts in voice, tone, level of formality, design, medium, and/or structure

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Understand and use a variety of technologies to address a range of audiences

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Critical Thinking, Reading, and Composing  

Use composing and reading for inquiry, learning, critical thinking, and communicating in various rhetorical contexts

Define:  I can read and write to learn, ask questions, think, and communicate for many different reasons.

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Locate and evaluate (for credibility, sufficiency, accuracy, timeliness, bias and so on) primary and secondary research materials, including journal articles and essays, books, scholarly and professionally established and maintained databases or archives, and informal electronic networks and internet sources

Define:  I'm able to find and determine if different types of sources are valuable.

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Use strategies—such as interpretation, synthesis, response, critique, and design/redesign—to compose texts that integrate the writer's ideas with those from appropriate sources

Define:  I can use the right sources in my writing correctly.

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Processes

Develop a writing project through multiple drafts

Define:  I know it takes lots of tries to complete a writing project.

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Develop flexible strategies for reading, drafting, reviewing, collaborating, revising, rewriting, rereading, and editing

Define:  I have many ways to make sure my writing is perfect.

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Learn to give and to act on productive feedback to works in progress

Define:  I can take and give advice about writing that is being worked on.

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Knowledge of Conventions


Develop knowledge of linguistic structures, including grammar, punctuation, and spelling, through practice in composing and revising

Define:  I'm able to use standard written English correctly

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Practice applying citation conventions systematically in their own work

Define:  I'm able to cite my work in my essay and in a works cited.

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