WRDS 1104

Student Learning Outcomes

Assignments/Activities

Studios

Writing Exchanges

Students will enact rhetorical choices, moves, and strategies for effective composing in print and online contexts

Students will develop the ability to navigate the stages of writing through a variety of composing processes.

Students will demonstrate the ability to think critically through diverse reading and writing tasks.

Students will identify and navigate new and diverse reading and writing situations and tasks that require their adaptation to shifting expectations and genres.

Students will use reflective writing to improve their writing.

Use research-based views of writing to explain how texts work and what readers and writers are doing

Theorize about the work that language does in the world

Demonstrate the ability to meet readers’ expectations by being adaptive, flexible writers

Demonstrate the ability to shift voice, tone, formality, design, medium, and layout to achieve a specific purpose

Use multiple strategies to conceptualize, develop, and finalize projects

Create new composing habits for unfamiliar tasks in both print and multimodal projects

Respond to feedback by instructor and peers for effective revision

Develop composing processes for different tasks and occasions

Locate and use a diverse range of digital and print texts as resources for writing

Understand the purpose and process of inquiry

Engage critically with a variety of source material to analyze, synthesize, interpret, and evaluate ideas, information, and texts

Demonstrate understanding that meaning is shaped by readers’ and writers' understanding of context and genre

Analyze how genres are constructed through various discourse communities

Apply the tone, style, organization, graphics, and document design that meets the expectations of the genre

Use citation practices consistent with the genre and demonstrate an understanding of fair-use

Reflect on deliberate choices made in a piece of writing

Learn and apply the language of writing studies and rhetoric by employing key words in their reflective writing

Synthesize and integrate insights from one project into another through reflective learning

Reflect on how approaches learned in the course may apply to future writing situations

Writing Exchange 2: Permission To Fail

Writing Exchange 3: Writing as Situated Practice

Writing Exchange 4: Genre as Activity

Writing Exchange 6: An Inquiry into Class Inquiry Questions on Writing

Writing Exchange 7: Process and Revision

Studio 1: Reflecting on History With Failure & its Influence

Studio 3: Genre Bending and Social Situations

Studio 2: Writing Scenarios

Studio 4: Bad Ideas About Writing Article From a Student Writer's Position

Studio 5: Peer Review Resource

Writing Exchange 1: What is Writing?

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