Student Learning Outcome Translations:

SLOs often happen at the same time and together such as rhetorical awareness,
critical thinking, composing. These SLOs are for students and teachers to better
understand FYW concepts so as to be helpful later in a students life.

Rhetorical Knowledge
Rhetorical knowledge is identifying and applying writing strategies. This knowledge
helps us understand a writers decisions as to genre, purpose, audience, and
context.
By the end of FYW, students should be able to:
Use rhetorical concepts to analyze texts in order to determine audience,
context, and purpose.
Assess how writers shape genres by going against conventions including
mechanics, structure, and style
Develop the flexibility that enables writers to shift voice, tone, formality,
design, medium, layout
to adapt to different situations.

Critical Reading
This is the ability to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate texts which is the foundation
for advanced academic writing.
By the end of FYW students should be able to:
Use reading for inquiry, learning, and discovery
Analyze their work and others work
Locate and evaluate primary and secondary research materials.
Use various texts and evaluate how they apply to different audiences and
situations.

Composing Processes
These are writing strategies used for projects. While writing with these, one can
always go back and do more research. These processes can be applied to different
scenarios.
By the end of FYW students should be able to:

Demonstrate flexible strategies to begin and complete a project.

Receive and employ feedback from others.
Use these processes to understand better the research, their ideas, and the
ideas of others so as
to improve their argument.

Knowledge of Conventions
Conventions define genres which in turn shapes the reader and writers
expectations of what is correct and not correct. They define things like mechanics,
usage, spelling, citation, content, style, graphics, document design.
By the end of FYW students should be able to:
Show differences in conventions from print-based to multi-modal.
Investigate why genre conventions vary
To start using copyright and fair use ideas of intellectual property in their own
work.
To learn grammar, punctuation, spelling through practice in composing and
revising.

Critical Reflection
This is the writers ability to express what they are thinking and why.
By the end of FYW students should be able to:
Reflect on their writing in different rhetorical situations
Use writing to clarify thoughts
Demonstrate their awareness of the choices they made and why and their
knowledge of
conventions in reference to their own writing.
Illustrate that reflection helps one to clarify their thoughts and grow better in
their writing
abilities.