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Learning Outcomes, ENC 1102

Outcomes are the measurable skills around which our assignments are built. After completing a major project, students will be assessed on how well they achieve these skills.

 
Project 1: Rhetorical Analysis

Project 1 will teach students to:
  • Analyze an advertisement using rhetorical appeals and/or logical fallacies
  • Write for an appropriate audience
  • Develop an arguable and engaging thesis related to an appropriate lens
  • Practice sensitivity in tone and word choice
  • Successfully incorporate information about the language and strategies used by advertisersUse appropriate academic conventions such as MLA
Project 2: Rogerian Argument

Project 2 will teach students to:
  • Accurately reconstructs opposing arguments on an issue
  • Employs appropriate tone and diction as to not alienate the reader
  • Successfully researches and integrates sources from multiple perspectives on an issue
  • Employs the Rogerian style of argument
  • Use academic conventions such as MLA
  • Use the writing process, including invention, drafting, revising, peer review, and editing strategies

Project 3: Rhetoric in Action

Project 3 will teach students to:
  • Successfully constructs an argument that works as a tool for change
  • Successfully integrates sources that support or illuminate the focus of the essay
  • Anticipates possible objections and addresses them
  • Suggests applicable courses of action
  • Successfully employs first person in relaying personal experience
  • Use the writing process, including invention, drafting, revising, peer review, and editing strategies
  • Use academic conventions such as MLA
  • Use multiple genres to present arguments (e.g, letter, website, video, artwork, flyer, pamphlet, panel, demonstration)  
  • Successfully integrates personal narrative of social action experience