ENGL111 Outcomes

Rhetorical Knowledge
By the end of ENGL111, students should be able to:

• Establish a clear purpose for writing and develop strategies that sustain that purpose throughout an innovative, comprehensive, research-driven project
• Analyze and respond to the various audiences, constraints, and purposes presented in a range of rhetorical situations
• Combine and apply multiple modes of discourse to present their research and communicate their expertise

Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing
By the end of ENGL111, students should be able to:

• Analyze and evaluate the rhetorical strategies and logic of their own thinking and that of others
• Incorporate into the writing process the finding, evaluating, analyzing, and synthesizing of appropriate primary and secondary sources
• Recognize and apply the standards required to develop and present ethical research
• Engage critically with the work of other writers, from peers to published authors, to demonstrate an understanding of writing and reading as dialogues among people who possess differing ideas, beliefs, and values

Processes
By the end of ENGL111, 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 successful research-driven persuasive text
• Demonstrate flexible strategies for researching, drafting, revising, editing, and proof-reading

Knowledge of Conventions
By the end of ENGL111, students should be able to:

• Practice the methods of inquiry and citation expected of university-level writing
• Employ university-level standards of syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling