Here are the learning goals for English 110.

Students will:

1. Produce writing that responds appropriately to a variety of rhetorical situations with a particular focus on academic argumentation.
2. Learn reading strategies to summarize, synthesize, analyze, and critique other people’s arguments and ideas fairly.
3. Learn research practices that will help strengthen their writing and thinking.
4. Produce writing that shows how writers may navigate the diverse processes of composing including revision and collaboration.
5. Produce writing that strategically employs appropriate language conventions in different writing situations.
6. Take ownership of their work and gain an understanding of their own voice, style, and strengths.

Here are the Pathways learning goals for English 110:

1. Read and listen critically and analytically, including identifying an argument’s major assumptions and assertions and evaluating its supporting evidence.
2. Write clearly and coherently in varied, academic formats (such as formal essays, research papers, and reports) using Standard English and appropriate technology to critique and improve one’s own and others’ texts.
3. Demonstrate research skills using appropriate technology, including gathering, evaluating, and synthesizing primary and secondary sources.
4. Support a thesis with well-reasoned arguments, and communicate persuasively across a variety of contexts, purposes, audiences, and media.
5. Formulate original ideas and relate them to the ideas of others by employing the conventions of ethical attribution and citation.

We will discuss the application of these goals throughout the class.