Learning Outcomes

Students compose texts in multiple genres, using multiple modes with attention to rhetorical situations. Through composing a variety texts and using a number of composing technologies, students demonstrate understanding of audience, purpose, and constraints. They use and adapt generic conventions, including organization, […]

As they undertake scholarly inquiry and produce their own arguments, students summarize, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate the ideas of others. Students may encounter the ideas of others in a variety of texts generated both inside and outside the classroom: print, […]

Students understand and practice writing as a process, recursively implementing strategies of research, drafting, revision, editing, and reflection. In learning about their own writing process and doing guided reflective writing about that process, students learn to critique their own and […]

Students use technology appropriately and engage responsibly in online spaces. Students conduct themselves according to norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use. They explain and practice good digital citizenship and utilize the concepts of intellectual property (including copyright, fair use, and […]

Students demonstrate collaborative skills in classroom discussion and working together on projects and presentations. Students practice effective collaboration and display a willingness to engage actively with each other. They work amiably in face-to-face and digital groups, and assume key roles in collaborative work. […]