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What's a Student Learning Outcome?
What's a Student Learning Outcome?
Student learning outcomes state what students are expected to know or be able to do upon completion of a course or program. Learning outcomes are statements that describe the knowledge or skills students should acquire by the end of a particular assignment, class, course, or program.
What you will learn. . .
What you will learn. . .
For English 124:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
Utilize the writing process, including pre-writing, writing, revision and proofreading to produce complex, high-quality work.
Evaluate the validity and soundness of arguments and the evidence within them.
Synthesize the ideas of two or more writers to create a broader understanding of an issue or topic.
Utilize critical reading strategies so as to successfully pull meaning from complex texts and texts structured in non-academic formats.
Students will be able to:
Students will be able to:
1) Critical Reading:
a. Identify purpose and audience of a text.
b. Identify rhetorical strategies in written discourse.
c. Evaluate the validity and soundness of arguments and the evidence within them.
d. Evaluate the validity and soundness of print and electronic resources, and integrate information from sound resources into their own writing.
e. Define deductive and inductive reasoning and identify which an author is using at any given time.
f. Identify common formal and informal fallacies of language and thought.
g. Distinguish factual from judgmental statements and informed opinion from prejudice.
h. Identify deliberate abuses and manipulations of rhetoric.
i. Identify examples of and explain effects of author tone and bias.
j. Utilize critical reading strategies so as to successfully pull meaning from complex texts and texts structured in nonacademic formats.
k. Identify models for effective writing.
l. Synthesize the ideas of two or more writers to create a broader understanding of an issue or topic.
Students will be able to:
Students will be able to:
1) Critical Writing:
a. Compose complex essays which utilize evidence drawn from written sources and employ one or, more likely, combine multiple of the following methods of critical analysis such as interpretation, analysis, evaluation, argumentation, synthesis, persuasion, causal analysis, proposal of solutions, refutation, definition, comparison/contrast, and summary.
b. Describe and utilize sophisticated vocabulary, diction, syntax, and style.
c. Utilize strategies that identify, address, and appeal to an academic audience; and tailor assertions, counterarguments and refutations, use of language, and use of evidence to reach that audience.
d. Utilize both denotative and connotative functions of language effectively.
e. Appraise and select valid and effective evidence and incorporate such evidence effectively into sentences and essays while documenting sources according to correct
MLA format.
f. Define and avoid plagiarism.
g. Utilize the writing process including prewriting, writing, revision, and proofreading to produce complex, highquality work.
h. Participate in small group and/or whole class peer review to compare their own writing and the writing of other students to the standards presented in class. Students will utilize the metalanguage of effective composition to articulate observations about how the writing is effective and how it may be improved.
i. Integrate instructor and peer feedback, both globally and locally, while simultaneously refining their insights as critics of written work.
j. Reflect on their own writing and learning strategies.
k. Articulate how written critical analysis techniques and patterns practiced in this course, as well as the writing process, may be utilized in other academic disciplines, in the workplace, and in everyday life.
l. Write inclass essays sufficient to succeed in upper division work at the university, as demonstrated by models and rubrics provided in class and/or in the textbook.
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