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2.2: Course Contents at a Glance

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    The following list shows the chapter-level topics and assignments for this courseware.

    Reflection

    Define reflective thinking and writing

    • Recognize reflection as an intellectual process
    • Identify conventions of reflective writing

    Rhetorical Reading

    Define and evaluate strategies for rhetorical reading and building vocabulary

    • Define and identify rhetorical context
    • Identify active reading strategies
    • Use context clues and other reading strategies to learn and retain new words

    Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay

    Recognize and evaluate strategies for moving beyond the five-paragraph essay

    • Recognize characteristics of organically structured essays
    • Recognize and evaluate effective paragraphs
    • Identify successful strategies for writing effective introductions and conclusions

    Revision

    Recognize strategies for revision

    • Identify strategies for revising for content
    • Identify the strategies for revising for structure
    • Identify strategies for revising for style

    Analysis

    Evaluate keys to successful analysis

    • Define analysis
    • Recognize and evaluate keys to successful analytic writing
    • Identify and apply different types of analytic processes

    Rhetorical Appeals

    Recognize and evaluate rhetorical appeals

    • Recognize and establish appeals to logos
    • Recognize and evaluate appeals to pathos
    • Recognize and establish appeals to ethos

    Academic Argument

    Evaluate keys to successful argument

    • Evaluate argumentative thesis statements
    • Evaluate logical fallacies in argument
    • Evaluate rhetorical approaches to building common ground
    • Evaluate strategies for rebuttal and refutation of counterargument

    Evaluating Sources

    Evaluate the quality and reliability of sources

    • Identify and differentiate different types of sources
    • Evaluate methods to assess the quality of print sources
    • Evaluate methods to assess the quality of online sources
    • Evaluate methods to assess the quality of multimedia sources

    Using Sources

    Define and evaluate using sources

    • Identify the conventions of source integration
    • Evaluate applications of paraphrase, summary, and quotation
    • Identify the conventions of citation and references
    • Establish credibility when using sources

    Multimodality

    Define and apply principles of multimodality

    • Define multimodality
    • Define and evaluate remediation and remix

    Readability

    Recognize and resolve readability errors

    • Critique the use of apostrophes
    • Critique the use of semicolons and colons
    • Critique the use of commas
    • Critique passages, revising for run-on sentences and fragments
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