Based on the Department of Writing and Rhetoric’s website for this course, I understand this outcome to mean that I will have the ability and knowledge to understand pieces of writing and employ them in my writing, as necessary.
I have met this outcome several times during this course as I have included scholarly text to support my writing goals in most of my assignments in this course, from weekly reading responses to the major papers. For instance, in my ‘Community of Practice and Their Genres” major paper, I wrote “Ann Johns states, “They are, instead, representative of the values, needs and practices of the community that produces them” (p.566)”(Bingham, 2020,p.5). This quote shows that I met this outcome because I understood scholarly text and was able to incorporate it into my writing to support my goals. Accomplishing this outcome was necessary in this course as I could not have shown my own personal understanding of the scholarly text unless I met this outcome.
Based on the Department of Writing and Rhetoric’s website for this course, I understand this outcome to mean that I should be capable of taking a piece of writing and be able to describe why and what the author did, in order to use that information in various situation that support my goals.
I have accomplished this outcome because during this semester I have done many assignments where I had to analyze the writing process of another student, evident in peer reviews, or even myself, in major paper 2, and use this information to uniquely give a response in each scenario. The evidence of this comes from major paper 2, “Rhetorical Analysis”, where I state “in doing so, I was searching for specific quotes that I thought would meet certain expectations, however, this could mean that I might have left more powerful quotes out of my essay” (Bingham, 2020, p. 4). This quote shows how I met outcome 2 because it illustrates how I analyzed my personal writing process and was able to come to a conclusion of why I used certain quotes in my timed writing. Furthermore, I was able to use this analysis in a productive way as it was useful in supporting my writing goals for the “Rhetorical Analysis”.
Based on the Department of Writing and Rhetoric’s website for this course, I understand this outcome to mean that I will be capable of writing differently and successfully, in response to different writing scenarios.
I met this outcome because I have faced various types of writing contexts during this course and I have been able to change my writing style in order to successfully complete all assignments. This is evident in my peer reviews when I address my reader directly and offer suggestions and personal opinions on someone’s writing. For example, in a recent peer review on choosing a community of practice I wrote, “I would also add that films are both conventionalist and anticonventionalist” (Bingham, 2020). This quote shows that I met this outcome because I changed the way I wrote in response to the writing context which I faced for the certain assignment. Meeting this outcome helped me during this course as I could fit my writing to meet my goals for a certain assignment.
Based on the Department of Writing and Rhetoric’s website for this course, I understand this outcome to mean I understand how each context of writing branches an entirely different way to write and learn compared to other contexts of writing.
I have met this outcome because I have shown my comprehension of this in various writings that I have done throughout this course. One writing where I showed my understanding was major paper 1, “Literacy Narrative”, when I wrote “ this type of writing is not something learned in a class or taught in any formal setting, most of it is learned when texting friends or family and everyone has a different texting language due to this” (Bingham, 2020, p. 2). This quote shows I met this outcome because it highlights how I have considered the concept of writing having different contexts and each context having a unique process of learning and execution. Understanding this outcome was massively helpful in all of the major assignments and various of other works that I did throughout this course.