Week 12 Reflections

I commented on Felicia's, Deb's, Anthony's, and Oscar's.

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.

-We accomplished this goal this week by analyzing our own projects to help enhance our paper. By doing so we are attempting to strengthen our purpose and the ability to reach out to our audiences.

• 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.

-By commenting on each others post and reviewing other students projects, we were able to think critically and participate in an interaction with other students.

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

-This week we reflected on our own projects and revised two other students work.

• 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.

-We accomplished this goal when we discussed punctuation. Punctuation is apart of the mechanics of writing and is just as important as the material itself.

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.