ENGL110 Outcomes

Rhetorical Knowledge
By the end of ENGL110, students should be able to:

• Establish a clear purpose for writing and develop a strategy that sustains that purpose
• Identify and respond to the needs of different audiences (including personal, public, and professional)

• Understand and apply voice, tone, persuasive appeals, and level of formality appropriate to the rhetorical situation
• Use various modes of discourse to develop a piece of writing

Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing
By the end of ENGL110, students should be able to:

• Use writing and reading for inquiry, learning, and communicating
• Analyze and synthesize primary and secondary sources in their writing
• Recognize the ways writers use language to make claims to authority

Processes
By the end of ENGL110, students should be able to:

• Practice writing as an ongoing process that uses later invention and re-thinking to revise a text

• 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 rhetorically complex text
• Demonstrate flexible strategies for drafting, revising, editing, and proof-reading

Knowledge of Conventions
By the end of ENGL110, students should be able to:

• Apply appropriate genre conventions to their writing, including
• Structure (sentence, paragraph, and essay levels)
• Tone
• Voice (personal, public, and professional)
• Mechanics
• Integrate the voices and work of others into their writing and distinguish that thinking and material from their own
• Control surface features of syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling
• Employ and build on the conventions learned in previous English and Communication courses

• Demonstrate academic integrity