ENGL091 Outcomes

Rhetorical Knowledge
By the end of ENGL091, students should be able to:

• Establish a clear purpose for writing
• Identify and respond to the needs of different audiences
• Adopt voice, tone, and level of formality appropriate to the rhetorical situation

• Use at least two of the modes of discourse (description, narration, or other types of exposition) to develop a piece of writing

Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing
By the end of ENGL091, students should be able to:

• Use writing and reading for inquiry, learning, and communicating

• Integrate their own ideas with the ideas of others

• Recognize the basic strategies of how writers use language to make claims to authority
• Identify the fundamental rhetorical strategies used by writers to organize information and persuade their readers

Processes
By the end of ENGL091, students should be able to:

• Engage with writing as an ongoing process that both permits and challenges writers to use later invention and re-thinking to revise earlier work

• Employ the collaborative and social aspects of writing processes, i.e., balance relying on formal and informal authority figures with accepting responsibility for doing their part

• Critique their own and others' works
• Work through multiple drafts to create and complete a successful text
• Demonstrate flexible strategies for drafting, revising, editing, and proof-reading

Knowledge of Conventions
By the end of ENGL091, students should be able to:

• Apply appropriate genre conventions to their writing, including
• Structure (sentence, paragraph, and essay levels)
• Tone
• Mechanics
• Integrate the voices of others into their writing and distinguish those voices from their own
• Demonstrate basic knowledge and application of surface features of syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling