General Education Student Learning Outcomes
As a course that fulfills the general education first-year writing requirement, HONS 110 has the following learning outcomes:
•Students analyze a source’s rhetorical situation
•Students substantiate claims with evidence
These outcomes will be assessed using a class blogpost on rhetorical analysis
Program Outcomes
By the end of English 110, students should:
Process
•Understand a writing assignment as a series of tasks, including invention, drafting, revising, and editing
•Shape a work according to the requirements of purpose, genre, occasion, and audience
•Construct an effective argument using appropriate evidence
•Understand the conventions of academic writing
•Document work appropriately
•Follow the conventions of standard American English
Reading and Research
•Develop skills for studying college-level essays and academic articles
•Develop skills for summarizing and paraphrasing college-level essays and academic articles
•Evaluate, analyze, and synthesize appropriate primary and secondary sources
•Integrate their ideas with the ideas of others effectively
Rhetorical Analysis
•Understand how a text is shaped according to the requirements of purpose, genre, occasion, and audience
•Understand the difference between summary and analysis
•Evaluate the persuasiveness of a text’s argument