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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin
What's a Student Learning Outcome?
What's a Student Learning Outcome?
Course student learning outcomes describe what a student is expected to know or be able to do after completing a course. Successful completion of this course means you’ve built evidence over a semester that clearly show you can do the following things:
Upon completing this course successfully, the Student Learning Outcomes state that you should be able to:
Upon completing this course successfully, the Student Learning Outcomes state that you should be able to:
1. Develop and compose appropriately clear and effective college-level writing that applies an appropriately narrowed topic, attention to purpose and audience, and basic cognitive and rhetorical modes as well as apply conventions of editing and revision to full-length essays.
2. Analyze and evaluate research material from multiple print and digital sources, including library databases, for credibility and legitimacy of authority through summary, paraphrase, and quotation, and apply to at least one essay.
3. Analyze purpose, style, organization, rhetorical and logical structure and identify common logical errors in the fiction and non-fiction prose of others, and explain arguments and biases in extended analytical written responses.
The language of these SLOs is very official and may be a bit confusing. Here's a more clear explanation of them and what you can expect to be able to understand and do by the end of the semester:
Use different steps of the writing process (pre-writing, drafting, revision, editing, publishing) to create original multiple-paragraph pieces of writing that demonstrate clarity, focus on an appropriately narrow topics, and make deliberate choices in grammars, languages, structures, and styles, based on awareness of each piece of writing's rhetorical purpose and intended audience.
Use different steps of the research process (developing a research question, locating source using keywords, evaluating sources for credibility and legitimacy of authority, effectively integrating and citing sources) to utilize multiple print and digital sources, including library databases, and to use professional style guides (MLA, APA, Chicago Style) to effectively summarize, paraphrase, quote, and cite this researched material in at least one multiple-paragraph piece of original writing.
Read and analyze different kinds of writing (including scholarly and academic writing) to evaluate and learn from their purposes, styles, organizations and rhetorical/logical structures, and to identify and avoid problems that result from common logical errors and author bias.
Why I Teach and My Commitment to You:
Why I Teach and My Commitment to You:
I have the best job in the world. As any teacher knows, it's the best job in the world because I get to work with you. Watching my mom's third-grade students make colorful booklets about children around the world or seeing my dad joke with his students while they developed photographs and copy-edited for the high-school yearbook convinced me early on that learning was fun, social, expressive work, and that the teachers got to be right in the middle of it.
As an English teacher, I work hard to create a learning experience that allows you to dive in to explorations of language and expression while learning from and teaching each other and having some fun in the process. I believe in "unconditional positive regard," which means that I will treat you with respect as you figure this out; it also means that I operate with the expectation that you can accomplish great things by working hard. My role is to use my experience, learning, and enthusiasm to guide your experience, learning, and enthusiasm.
In terms of our subject, I place a high value on language as a tool for expression, communication, and the transmission of ideas from human to human. Learning requires risk, effort, and commitment, but the environment in which we take risks, make efforts, and realize commitments should always honor your dignity and your worth. I'm committed to providing a safe, welcoming environment that emphasizes respect and inquiry from all participants, recognizes and affirms different worldviews, and benefits from the contributions of everyone in our class.
On your end, I invite you, implore you, urge you to bring who you are into your writing and into your relationship with learning and literature. I look forward to learning from and with you!
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