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By Megan Coyle, Sam Lee, Alex Caviness, Lauren Tooley, and Sarah Mullen
Rhetorical Knowledge: How Writers Write and Why
Rhetorical knowledge is the ability to recognize what strategies writers use when writing for a
specific genre, audience, purpose, and context and how each of these intentional choices
shapes the authors writing.
By the end of the class, students should be able to:
Use their knowledge of writers tools to analyze and write a variety of texts paying
specific attention to audience, context, and purpose
Understand how genres affect and are affected by writers use of conventions
Use context given by the texts audience, purpose, and overall structure and style
to draw connections to previous texts
Be able to analyze and shift voice, tone, formality, design, medium, and layout
depending on the situation
Critical Reading: How to Think While You Read
Critical reading is the ability to look over a text or work and think deeply about audience,
purpose, structure, style, voice, medium, etc. It allows readers and writers to understand
evidence, assertions, sources, assumptions, patterns, and chains of reasoning.
By the end of the class, students should be able to:
Find and evaluate print and electronic primary and secondary research materials
Critically analyze their and others work, understanding the value of different
choices the author makes to follow how the writer logically got from one conclusion to
another
Read a diverse range of texts to see how their conventions function for different
audiences and situations
Composing Processes: How to Write
Composing processes are writing strategies that help conceptualize, develop, and finalize
writing projects. Successful writers adapt their writing processes for different situations.
By the end of the class, students should be able to:
Demonstrate flexible composing processes through drafting, reviewing,
collaborating, revising, rewriting, rereading, and editing
Use their peers in the writing process by brainstorming, giving and receiving
criticism, and interpreting and evaluating peers responses
Use processes to solidify their and others ideas and arguments
Knowledge of Conventions: What are Genres
Conventions are the formal and informal rules that make each genre unique. Conventions
include mechanics, citation, and spelling in addition to content, style, and organization.
By the end of the class, students should be able to:
Discuss variations in conventions between genres and identify why they vary
Properly cite resources used
Use good grammar, spelling, and punctuation

Critical Reflection:
Critical reflection is the ability to articulate what you are thinking and why, which includes
explaining the choices you made while writing and how you made changes based on feedback.
By the end of the class, students should be able to:
Reflect on various texts
Use writing as a means for reflection
Demonstrate their rhetorical awareness, their writing process, and their
knowledge of conventions with regard to their own writing
Illustrate that reflection is a necessary part of learning, thinking and
communicating