Goals for English 101

By the end of English 101, students should be able to do the following:

Develop their own rhetorical flexibility within and beyond academic writing

· Recognize and be able to describe differences (including differences of purpose, audience, genre, and conventions) in writing tasks

· Analyze, frame, and respond to different writing tasks by varying content, structure, and language in complex ways appropriate to the rhetorical situation

· Recognize how standards for syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling vary across rhetorical contexts and develop a systematic plan for meeting the standards appropriate for those contexts

· Use a variety of voices, tones, and levels of formality

Analyze how language and rhetorical choices vary across texts and different institutional, historical, and/or public contexts

· Analyze multiple texts and contexts for their different purposes, audiences, subjects, and genres

· Analyze the language differences of a variety of texts and contexts and how they reflect their different purposes, audiences, subjects, and genres

· Recognize and critically evaluate how language choices reflect and represent multiple rhetorical purposes, audiences, subjects, and genres

Revise to improve their own writing

· Recognize and experiment with the rhetorical effects of language choices

· Develop their ideas through interaction with other writers and readers

· Critique their own writing and develop strategies to improve global qualities (focus, development, organization) as well as local qualities (style, usage)

· Give and receive critical responses to writing, and use suggestions appropriately to improve their own writing