Learning Goals & Objectives

In order for you to achieve these goals, we will work on the following:

• Read, analyze, and evaluate a variety of primarily non-fiction texts. These texts should be relevant to students’ lives, reflect their intersectional identities, and prioritize the inclusion of historically underrepresented voices including, but not imited to, those of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian and Pacific Islander, LGBTQ+ and Disabled identity.

• Develop and/or refine a set of information literacy practices in order to explore, evaluate, and ethically integrate appropriate popular and scholarly sources.

• Collaborate as a community of writers to create a supportive environment for invention, critical analysis, discussion, revision, and collaboration.

• Compose unified, well-organized texts that synthesize source material to support specific and debatable claims. This should include a substantially developed inquiry - and research-based essay/project of approximately 1500 to 2000 words. (Students should compose a minimum of 5000 words of formal writing in the course.)

• Develop and/or refine an individualized set of practices for reading and writing, focused on the following areas: comprehension and rereading, prewriting and drafting, collaboration, revision, reflection, and editing.

• Effectively integrate and respond to the ideas of others in written and multimodal compositions using a range of appropriate techniques such as paraphrase, summary, and direct quotation.

• Gain experience producing in-class timed writing, which may be low-stakes or ungraded. In an online setting, this timed writing objective can be achieved through timed quizzes or similar functions in the college's LMS.

• Common Course Numbering Objectives

a. Read analytically to understand and respond to diverse academic texts.

b. Compose thesis-driven academic writing that demonstrates analysis and synthesis of sources as appropriate to the rhetorical situation.

c. Demonstrate strategies for planning, outlining, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading written work.