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2.3: Learning Outcomes

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    The content, assignments, and assessments for this course are aligned to the following learning outcomes:

    1. Module: Define reflective thinking and writing
      • Recognize reflection as an intellectual process
        • Define reflection as an intellectual process
        • Identify knowledge types embedded within reflection
      • Identify conventions of reflective writing
        • Recognize possible structures for reflective writing
        • Recognize component skills of reflective writing
    2. Module: Define and evaluate strategies for rhetorical reading and building vocabulary.
      • Define and identify rhetorical contexts
        • Define the concept of rhetorical context
        • Identify writers’ rhetorical contexts
        • Identify readers’/responders’ rhetorical contexts
      • Identify active reading strategies
        • Identify active reading strategies
        • Evaluate active reading strategies
      • Evaluate strategies for retaining new words
        • Identify strategies for using context clues
        • Evaluate strategies for retaining new words
    3. Module: Recognize and evaluate strategies for moving beyond the five-paragraph essay
      • Recognize characteristics of organically-structured essays.
        • Differentiate between formulaic and organic structure.
        • Identify characteristics of organically-structured essays.
      • Recognize and evaluate effective paragraphs
        • Recognize techniques for effective paragraph construction
        • Evaluate paragraph construction
      • Identify successful strategies for writing introductions and conclusions
        • Identify successful strategies for writing introductions and conclusions
        • Evaluate successful strategies for writing introductions and conclusions
    4. Module: Recognize strategies for revision
      • Identify strategies for revising for content
        • Recognize rhetorical context in relation to content
        • Identify strategies for development
      • Identify the strategies for revising for structure
        • Recognize rhetorical context in relation to structure
        • Identify strategies for revising for paragraph structure
        • Identify strategies for revising for global structure
        • Evaluate strategies for arranging ideas
      • Identify strategies for revising for style
        • Recognize rhetorical context in relation to style
        • Identify strategies for revising for style
        • Evaluate strategies for revising for style
      • Identify strategies for revising for grammar and mechanics
        • Recognize common grammar and mechanical errors
        • Demonstrate ability to proofread
    5. Module: Evaluate keys to successful analysis
      • Define analysis
        • Identify the domain of analysis
        • Recognize the barriers to analysis
      • Recognize and evaluate keys to successful writing
        • Recognize keys to successful analysis writing
        • Evaluate keys to successful analysis writing
      • Identify and apply different types of analytic processes
        • Identify different types of analytic processes
        • Apply different types of analytic processes
    6. Module: Recognize and Evaluate Rhetorical Appeals
      • Recognize and establish appeals to logos
        • Recognize appeals to logos
        • Evaluate appeals to logos
      • Recognize and evaluate appeals to pathos
        • Recognize appeals to pathos
        • Evaluate appeals to pathos
      • Recognize and establish appeals to ethos
        • Recognize appeals to ethos
        • Recognize strategies for establishing appeals to ethos
    7. Module: Evaluate keys to successful argument
      • Evaluate an arguable thesis
        • Recognize an arguable thesis
        • Evaluate an argumentative thesis
      • Evaluate logical fallacies
        • Recognize common logical fallacies
        • Evaluate logical fallacies in texts
      • Evaluate rhetorical approaches to building common ground
        • Recognize rhetorical approaches to building common ground
        • Evaluate rhetorical approaches to building common ground
      • Evaluate strategies for rebuttal and refutation of counterargument
        • Recognize strategies for rebuttal and refutation of counterargument
        • Evaluate strategies for rebuttal and refutation of counter-argument
    8. Module: Evaluate the quality and reliability of sources
      • Differentiate types of sources
        • Differentiate types of sources
      • Evaluate methods to assess the quality of print sources
        • Apply the CRAAP analysis method to evaluate print sources
      • Evaluate methods to assess the quality of online sources
        • Apply the CRAAP analysis method to evaluate online sources
      • Evaluate methods to assess the quality of multimedia sources
        • Apply the CRAAP analysis method to evaluate multimedia sources
    9. Module: Define and Evaluate Using Sources
      • Identify the conventions of source integration
        • Identify the five components of the “source sandwich”
      • Evaluate applications of paraphrase, summary, and quotation
        • Differentiate among paraphrase, summary, and quotation
        • Evaluate application of paraphrase, summary, and quotation
      • Identify the conventions of citation and references.
        • Identify the conventions of citation and references
        • Interpret the conventions of citation and references
      • Establishing Credibility when Using Sources
        • Recognize markers of credibility in writing
        • Differentiate among the markers of credibility in writing
    10. Module: Define and apply principles of multimodality.
      • Define multimodality
        • Define multimodality
        • Recognize different modes
      • Define and evaluate remediation and remix
        • Define Remediation
        • Define Remix
        • Evaluate attribution within remix
    11. Module: Recognize and resolve readability errors
      • Critique the standard uses of apostrophes.
        • Recognize the standard uses of apostrophes
        • Demonstrate the standard uses of apostrophes
      • Critique the use of semicolons and colons.
        • Differentiate the standard uses of semicolons and colons
        • Demonstrate the standard uses of semicolons
        • Demonstrate the standard uses of colons
      • Critique the use of commas.
        • Recognize the standard uses of commas
        • Demonstrate the standard uses of commas
      • Critique passages, revising for run-on sentences and fragments.
        • Recognize run-on sentences
        • Recognize sentence fragments
        • Demonstrate revision for run-on sentences
        • Demonstrate revision for sentence fragments
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