The following are the goals students should develop by the end of the course. These goals would allow the students to determine their strengths and weaknesses when writing. By referring back to these goals before, during, and after a piece was to be submitted, it would allow students to assess their own growth throughout the course.

Course Learning Outcomes
● Explore and analyze, in writing and reading, a variety of genres and rhetorical situations.
● Develop strategies for reading, drafting, collaborating, revising, and editing.
● Recognize and practice key rhetorical terms and strategies when engaged in writing
situations.
● Engage in the collaborative and social aspects of writing processes.
● Understand and use print and digital technologies to address a range of audiences.
● 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, timeliness, and bias.
● Compose texts that integrate your stance with appropriate sources using strategies such as
summary, critical analysis, interpretation, synthesis, and argumentation.
● Practice the systematic application of citation conventions.