8/16/2019 Stewart - EnC1101 Identity Statement

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Jacob Stewart

Department of Writing and Rhetoric

Department-wide Identity Statement, Composition ISpring 201

In !"C1101 st#dents wi$$ ta%e writing as their ob&ect of st#dy in order to $earn how to prod#ce p#rposef#$ arg#ments in academic and non-academic settings' (hro#gh ref$ection on pre)io#s

writing e*periences and interrogation of immediate rhetorica$ sit#ations, st#dents wi$$ identify

and ana$y+e their comp$e* writing $i)es as they de)e$op across conte*ts, comm#nities, and

)ario#s media' St#dents wi$$ recogni+e how te*ts mediate comm#nities and $earn to prod#ce

arg#ments within socia$ conte*ts, inc$#ding assessing comm#nity appropriate genres and

composing within them' D#ring m#$tip$e, interconnected #nits, st#dents de)e$op reading

strategies that enab$e them to see te*ts as meaningf#$ actions connected to ongoing scho$ar$y

con)ersations and to #se these te*ts to constr#ct framewor%s that s#pport their arg#ments'

St#dents wi$$ #$timate$y #nderstand the )a$#e of their pre)io#s writing training in re$ation to new

conceptions abo#t writing in order to ade#ate$y orient to composition both inside and o#tsidethe #ni)ersity'

!"C1101 immerses st#dents in the wor% of

- Constr#cting dec$arati)e and proced#ra$ %now$edge in the fie$d of Writing St#dies

- .sing rhetorica$ reading strategies in order to become better readers of comp$e* te*ts

- /rod#cing arg#ments that impact both academic and non-academic a#diences thro#gh the

#se of rhetorica$ writing s%i$$s inc$#ding b#t not $imited to mobi$i+ing manners of appea$,app$ying mode$s of rhetorica$ sit#ations, and constr#cting framewor%s'

- !*p$oring the ways in which rec#rsi)e writing processes might be e*amined andimpro)ed

- a$#ing dai$y, non-academic writing tas%s inc$#ding te*ts prod#ced in digita$ conte*tsas important compositions with impact on act#a$ a#diences

- !ngaging in comm#nity-specific methods of meaning ma%ing by recogni+ing, na)igating,

and prod#cing comm#nity sanctioned genres of writing

- Ref$ecting on $iteracy histories in order to #nderstand pre-conceptions abo#t writing and

assess the acc#racy and )a$#e of those pre-conceptions

- !mp$oying co$$aborati)e writing proced#res in which responsi)eness to peers and

instr#ctors $eads to re)ision and the prod#ction of effecti)e arg#ments