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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


Develop composing processes for different tasks and occasions


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


Respond to feedback by instructor and peers for effective revision


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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

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


Analyze how genres are constructed through various discourse communities

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

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Writing Exchange 4: Genre as Activity

Peer Response WE 4: Genre as Activity

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

Writing Exchange 3: Writing As Situated Practice

Writing Exchange 1: What Is Writing?

APA Citation Assessment

Studio 5: Peer Review Resource

Studio 1: Reflecting on History with Failure & Its Influence

Studio 5: Peer Review Resource