Student Learning Outcomes

Rhetorical knowledge is the ability to identify and effectively use language in texts to transmit
information. Depending on different contexts, purposes, audiences, writers should choose their
own processes and approaches.
By the end of first year writing, students should be able to:
Use variety of techniques to compose a wide range of texts according to audience, context, and
purpose.
Shape readers mind by genres and conventions, including techniques, structure, and style.
Smoothly change voice, tone, layout of texts according to different situations and purposes
Critical reading is the ability to analyze, interpret, and evaluate information and texts. Critical
thinkers separate facts from assumptions, use evidence and sources to verify assertions. They can
read texts and identify connections, patterns, and chains of reasoning.
By the end of first year writing, students should be able to:
Use reading for inquiry, learning, and discovery.
Analyze their work and others critically by examining texts and their use of language.
Identify and evaluate the origin of resources, including journal articles and essays, books,
internet sources.
Use a wide range of texts to establish a relationship between assertion and evidence, pattern of
organization and how they work for different audiences and situations.
Composing process is the process when writers create and develop ideas. This process is not
straightforward and flexible, meaning writers can change elements within a work along the way.
Successful writers know how to compose differently according to the contexts and occasions.
By the end of first your writing, students should be able to:
Apply strategies for drafting, reviewing, collaborating, revising, rewriting, rereading, and
editing.
Collaborate with others by respond to their writing and evaluate their own received responds;
brainstorm.
Use available resources to expand their own writing and others through the writing process,
and to strengthen and solidify logical arguments.
Knowledge of conventions helps make essays clear and understandable, including spelling,
punctuation, capitalization, and grammar. They influence content, style, organization, graphics,
and document design.
By the end of first year writing, students should be able to:
Categorize contents into genres, from print-based compositions to multi-modal compositions.
Investigate why different genres have different structures, formats, tones, etc.
Motivate others to practice citing their work using the concepts of intellectual property (fair
use and copyright.)
Practice composing and revising to develop knowledge of linguistic structures, including
grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Critical reflection is the ability to express and revise what he/she is thinking and why.
By the end of fist year writing, students should be able to:

 Reflect their writing in various situations.

Use writing and a mean for reflection.
Demonstrate their knowledge of conventions by writing with plans and selections.
Illustrate that reflection is a necessary part of learning, thinking and communicating.