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English 1010 - Introduction to Writing
Draft - English 1010 Course This course is in development and should only be considered a draft. It may change significantly before it is first offered.

Rhetorical Situation

• Adapt their writing to a variety of purposes, audiences, and composing situations by selecting and using the most appropriate genres.
• Produce a variety of formal and informal kinds of writing, emphasizing the most common academic genres.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how rhetorical expectations vary from discipline to discipline.
• Use technologies appropriate to purpose and audience.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how emerging technologies create emerging genres.

Reading

• Demonstrate an ability to read and understand texts of a variety of genres, styles and complexity.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how texts are structured in specific ways for specific reasons.
• Demonstrate an ability to understand and evaluate a text's organization.

Thinking

• Use writing and reading for inquiry, learning, thinking, and communicating.
• Recognize personal and authorial bias when approaching texts, issues, and ideas.
• Recognize contradictions and logical problems in texts.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the relationships between language, knowledge, and power.
• Recognize complex ideas and positions in arguments and attempt to understand diverse perspectives.
• Ask constructive questions that could lead to meaningful inquiry.
• Identify connections between and among texts and their ideas.

Writing

Structure and Mechanics

• Compose writing that is structurally coherent and unified.
• Compose writing assignments with a clear thesis or main idea.
• Control such surface features as syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
• Use a style manual to find answers to grammar or usage questions.

Process

• Demonstrate an understanding of how effective writing is a recursive process.
• Develop flexible pre-writing, drafting, peer response, and revision strategies in composing written assignments.
• Continue to practice writing as a process.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how electronic technologies can enhance the way we compose and share texts.

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