RWS, First-Year Composition (FYC) 

First Year Composition/Writing: General Course Objectives

1. Rhetoric and Its Relevance in Composition/Writing

2. Awareness of Rhetorical Situations in Writing

3. Rhetorical situations: context/Kairos/exigence, speaker/author/writer, audience, purpose, message/text, medium, form, delivery, etc.

4. Genre Conventions: Limitations and Opportunities

5. Critical and Creative Thinking and Writing Skills

6. Writing Process, Writing-as-Process, Reading to Write, Learning to Write, Writing to Learn

7. Drafting, Revising, Editing, Peer Reviewing

8. Form and Content, Structure and Agency, Machine Writing and Human Voice

9. Community Writing, Community Engagement, Proposal Writing

10. Small-Scale First-Hand Primary Research

11. Research Methods, Data Analysis/Interpretation Techniques, Findings

12. Research Biases and Positionalities

13. Ethics and Integrity in Writing/Composition

14. Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), Large Language Models (LLMs)

15. (Digital) Multimodal Composition (DMC).

16. Writing for Social Change

17. Crafting Stories, Narratives, Lived Experiences

18. Connecting FYC Writings to Their Majors

19. Presentation Skills and Techniques

20. Writing Transfer Skills

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