1. What are one or two personal writing goals that you feel you have worked toward, met, or identified that you need to continue working on this semester?
2. Reflect on the course goals below, and then discuss which of the goals (the bullet pointed items) most align with your personal goals:
Course-Specific Writing Goals
Rhetorical Knowledge
- Use key rhetorical concepts through analyzing and composing a variety of texts
- Develop facility in responding to a variety of situations and contexts (academic and nonacademic) calling for purposeful shifts in voice, tone, level of formality, design, medium, and/or structure
- Use a variety of technologies to address a range of audiences
- Read and compose in several genres, understanding how genre conventions shape and are shaped by readers’ and writers’ practices and purposes
Inquiry & Research
- Locate and evaluate a variety of primary and secondary research materials
- Summarize, paraphrase, analyze, and synthesize information from a variety of sources in their writing
- Incorporate work created by others in a variety of media (e.g., text, images, sound, video) ethically and effectively for rhetorical purposes
- Apply citation conventions appropriate for genre, purpose, and audience
- Formulate viable research questions, hypotheses, and conclusions
Writing Processes & Craft
- Develop a writing project through multiple drafts
- Develop flexible strategies for reading, drafting, reviewing, collaborating, revising, rewriting, rereading, and editing
- Evaluate the work of others, give useful feedback to others on their writing, and evaluate and incorporate feedback from others in their own writing
- Assess accurately the strengths and weaknesses of their own writing, and develop individual plans for revision and improvement
- Enact revision as substantive change
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