Weekly Learning Reflections 8

Deb's article for 8.1 Clarity.
Andrew's article for Revised Introduction.
Deb's article for Revised Conclusion.

Program Goals

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 weeks assignments focused on rhetorical strategies and helped us learn the different strategies. 

• 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.

This goal was achieved by having the students respond to other students articles, especially the revised introduction and conclusion.

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

Goal 3 is achieved every week by us completing reflections and commenting on students work. Also the Revised introduction and conclusion was also completed this week.

• 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.

Working on our paper helps complete the fourth goal.

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