Learning Outcomes

1. Develop a capacity for close attention to language structure and language use.
2. Develop familiarity with and appreciation for major authors, literary movements and genres and their place in the development of American, British and other literatures.
3. Build the skills required to write persuasive, coherent explications of literary texts, to appropriately support arguments with both primary and secondary source material and to properly employ the conventions of documentation as a foundation for writing effective critical essays in upper-division courses.
4. Develop familiarity with the core issues in writing studies.
5. Demonstrate applications of varied writing styles, creative and professional genres and rhetorical strategies and conventions.
6. Demonstrate competency with invention, drafting and revision processes as both writer and critic through activities such as workshops, peer reviews and group projects.
7. Demonstrate competency in creating text-appropriate sentences as well as in editing for syntactic and stylistic punctuation and conventions.