Week 9 Reflections

I commented on Felicia's Clarity Part 2, Deb's Questions about Controversy, Cynthia's Narrowing her focus, and Andrew's Questions about Controversy.

English 102 aims to support student development in the four learning goals defined for all first-year courses in the Writing Program:

• Goal 1: Rhetorical Awareness. Learn strategies for analyzing texts’ audiences, purposes, and contexts as a means of developing facility in reading and writing.

-This was achieved when we wrote our blogs about clarity part 2.

• Goal 2: Critical Thinking and Composing. Use reading and writing for purposes of critical thinking, research, problem solving, action, and participation in conversations within and across different communities.

-Adding more sources and creating another annotated bibliography helped the class think critically of the questions we created earlier.

• Goal 3: Reflection and Revision. Understand composing processes as flexible and collaborative, drawing upon multiple strategies and informed by reflection.

-Narrowing our focus was a great way to reflect on our questions from the previous post. By looking at our questions again, we were able to pick questions that we found were the most important about our subject.

• Goal 4: Conventions. Understand conventions as related to purpose, audience, and genre, including such areas as mechanics, usage, citation practices, as well as structure, style, graphics, and design.

-Audience and genre also helped us focus on our questions and provide accurate examples of what we could do to help solve our questions. 

Course Goals

In English 102, you should learn how to:

• Read texts to assess how writers achieve their purposes with their intended audiences.
• Devise writing strategies suited to various rhetorical situations.
• Develop an argument with persuasive appeals to your audience.
• Locate and analyze evidence to develop an argument.
• Develop ideas with observations and reflections on your experience.
• Revise in response to feedback from readers to improve drafts.
• Use the conventions of scholarly research, analysis, and documentation.
• Use the conventions of academic writing, including clear, convincing prose.

Steven