Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, you should successfully be able to:

• Collaboratively expand on the definitions for “reading,” “writing,” “critical thinking,” “rhetoric,” and “written communication.”

• Use the expanded knowledge from these definitions to write about your skillset in a language t.hat is transferable to other contexts (both professional and educational)

• Talk about dominant narratives about reading and writing within higher education by referencing class readings and synthesizing them with your own experiences.

• Discuss alternative approaches to reading and writing within higher education by referencing class readings and synthesizing them through your own positionality.

• Understand the role of “second readings” when reading difficult texts by identifying two or more strategies when approaching dense material.

• Identify the way rhetorical moves are deployed within a text by accurately recognizing how, when, and for what purpose they are used.

• Describe the rhetorical and affective purpose and impact of writerly moves within texts and how you might be able to use those in your own writing.