Rhetorical Knowledge and Judgment
At the end of WRIT 340, students should understand how to
- Choose unique positions regarding established and emerging issues, and negotiate the complexities in those issues with a sophisticated and judicious sense of audience
- Recognize potential challenges to the legitimacy of how they utilize evidence in contextualizing and/or supporting their arguments
- Display rhetorical aptitude when engaging with academic, professional, and lay audiences, including the ability to anticipate what different readers need from a text
Critical Reasoning and Ethical Inquiry
At the end of WRIT 340, students should understand how to
- Interrogate not only the assumptions of others, but also their own beliefs about and understanding of the forces that influence knowledge in their disciplines, professions, and/or civic lives
- Avoid a summary of research, and instead integrate outside sources in ways that are appropriate, ethical, and stylistically sound
- Embrace the complexities of the research process while recognizing its benefits in academic, professional, and civic inquiry
The Craft and Processes of Writing
At the end of WRIT 340, students should understand how to
- Employ heuristics in the initial stages and throughout the process of constructing a paper, including during the revision phase
- Produce structured, vibrant prose that provides an audience with what is needed to be grounded in the discussion and open to the author’s position
- Exhibit an intellectually committed and authentic voice, free of clichés, idioms, hackneyed phrasing, extraneous information, and predictability
Grammatical and Genre Conventions
At the end of WRIT 340, students should understand how to
- Adhere to conventions ranging from structure and paragraphing to tone and mechanics, but also bend those conventions when appropriate to the author’s purpose
- Demonstrate mastery of a scholarly apparatus for the inclusion of outside sources
- Create flowing syntax free of errors in punctuation, grammar, and spelling