| Learning Goal Write below Rewrite each course (verbatim) all learning outcome in course learning your own words. outcomes listed in | Your Paraphrase Rewrite each course learning outcome in your own words. | Score 0-5 Rate your learning | Evidence of Learning Briefly describe an example (or provide a hyperlink to your work) to demonstrate your level of learning. |
| Examine how Explore how views attitudes towards on language linguistic standards standards can affect empower and speakers positively oppress language and negatively users. | Explore how views on language standards can affect speakers positively and negatively | 4 | The course text the “Mother Tongue” and “Nobody Mean More to Me,” I saw how language standards can silence people or give them confidence, depending on the situation. My synthesis essay also connected this idea to how social interactions helped me embrace my own English without feeling ashamed. |
| Explore and Learn how to read analyze, in writing and write different and reading, a types of texts and variety of genres understand how purpose and and rhetorical audience change the situations. way we | Learn how to read and write different types of texts and understand how purpose and audience change the way we | 4 | This semester I wrote in multiple genres: a personal narrative, a visual argument, an academic synthesis essay and a reflection one. Each required a different tone and structure. For example, in my visual argument I used imagery rather than long explanations, while in my synthesis essay I |
| Develop strategies Practice skills for for reading, understanding texts, drafting, writing drafts, collaborating, working with others, and improving my revising, and writing through editing. revision. | Practice skills for understanding texts, writing drafts, working with others, and improving my writing through revision. | 4 | I used peer reviews and professors feedback to revise my Language Narrative and Synthesis Essay. I rewrote paragraphs multiple times, added context to citations, strengthened transitions, and clarified my ideas. I also learned how reading actively highlighting and annotating helps me |
| Recognize and Learn how rhetorical practice key tools like summary, rhetorical terms analysis, ethos, and strategies pathos, and purpose work, and apply when engaged in them in mv own | Learn how rhetorical tools like summary, analysis, ethos, pathos, and purpose work, and apply them in mv own | 4 | In my Visual Argument, I used pathos to show emotional connection. In my synthesis essay, I used summary and analysis to connect Warfelt, Hoff, Xu & Zhang to my own experience. I also practiced rhetorical analvsis when reading |
| Understand and use Learn how to use print and digital different tools like technologies to Google Docs, Slides, address a range of images to communicate with audiences. different audiences. | Learn how to use different tools like Google Docs, Slides, images to communicate with different audiences. | 4 | I created a digital visual argument using an image and text. I used Google Docs for drafting and Canva for presenting my Language Narrative orally. I also linked sources, formatted citations, and used digital editing tools. |
| Locate research sources (including academic journal articles, magazine and newspaper articles) in the library’s databases or archives and on the Internet and evaluate them for credibility, accuracy, | Learn how to find trustworthy sources in library databases and online, and decide if they are useful for my writing. | 3 | For my synthesis essay, I used academic sources like Warfelt (2012), Hoff (2018), and Xu & Zhang (2022). I learned to check their publication info, research focus and credibility before integrating their ideas. |
| Compose texts that integrate a stance with appropriate sources, using strategies such as summary, analysis, synthesis, and | Write essays where I combine my own ideas with sources by summarizing, analyzing and connecting everything into one argument. | 4 | My synthesis essay is the strongest example. I formed a clear stance about learning language through social interaction and used four sources to support it. I added context to each citation, explained its meaning, and connected it to my own experience. |
| Practice systematic application of citation conventions. | Learn how to use MLA formatting correctly when quoting and citing sources. | 3 | I used MLA in-text citations in my synthesis essay and formatted my Works Cited. I practiced introducing authors, adding context, using quotation marks, and integrating citations smoothly into my writing. |
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