When reading, planning, drafting, and revising, keep these these student learning outcomes mind. We may even find it helpful to use the following abbreviations, in bold, as pre-arranged tags (sort of like hashtags), so that we might identify, organize, and browse each others' examples of these benchmarks that we will produce throughout the semester:

1. rhetorical knowledge RK

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  purpose

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  responding to the needs of different audiences

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  constraints (format, conventions, appropriateness/surprise value)

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  context

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  genres

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  medium

2. Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing CTRW

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  writing for inquiry, learning, communicating, and discovery

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  finding, evaluating, analyzing, and synthesizing appropriate primary and secondary sources

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  integrating your ideas with those of others

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  understanding the relationships among language, knowledge, and power

3. Process

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  recursion and drafting

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  flexible strategies for generating, revising, editing, and proof-reading

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  collaborative and social aspects of writing processes

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  critique your own work and others' works

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  multi-person composition: learn to balance the advantages of relying on others with the responsibility of playing your part

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  multimedia composition: use a variety of technologies to address a range of audiences 

4. Knowledge of Conventions KC

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  awareness common formats for different kinds of texts

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  genre conventions ranging from structure and

   

  paragraphing

   

   

  to tone and mechanics

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  appropriate means of documenting your work

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  surface features - syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

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