Rhetorical Knowledge (responding appropriately to a variety of rhetorical situations)  

By the end of English 309, students should demonstrate the ability to compose texts and presentations that

• Develop and negotiate an advanced rhetorical situation

• Integrate and are informed by their own multiple literacies

• Exhibit awareness of audience, including the ability to determine appropriate scope, genre, and tone for a public text or particular discipline
  

• Exhibit knowledge of context, which includes analyzing discourse communities to determine how they shape the various purposes and forms of composing
  

Critical Reading and Thinking (analyzing rhetorical positioning of texts)  

By the end of English 309, students should demonstrate the ability to produce texts and presentations that

• Evidence skill in reading and understanding texts that draw from multiple literacies
  

• Indicate knowledge of research methods by analyzing social contexts, assessing the validity of sources, and summarizing and evaluating relevant information
  

• Result from designing their own research projects by identifying questions, developing strategies, using primary and secondary sources to support arguments, and choosing effective methods of presentation
  

• Acknowledge the complexity of issues by engaging and evaluating multiple points of view
  

Processes

By the end of English 309, students should demonstrate the ability to produce texts and presentations that

• Use writing as a tool for exploration and reflection

• Employ strategies for composing as a recursive process of inventing, investigating, shaping, drafting, revising, and editing
  

• Exhibit the ability to work collaboratively, including in-class, online, and in individual projects
  

• Evidence the ability to reflect on their individual writing processes
  

• Exhibit an awareness of the communicative options available for any project, text, or composition and make composing choices accordingly
  

Conventions

By the end of English 309, students should demonstrate the ability to produce texts and presentations that

• Indicate awareness of various modes of presentation and ability

to select the mode(s) most appropriate to the audience and purpose