These versions are meant for use within the department and among select audiences.  WRT 105 1. Writing as Situated Process
Students will practice a range of invention and revision strategies appropriate to various writing situations. - practicing invention strategies such as drafting, brainstorming, observing, and researching.
- practicing revision and editing strategies in light of content, strategy, prose style, and technical control.
- recognizing and adapting to conventions and technologies that characterize work in varied contexts of production and circulation.
2. Writing with Sources
Students will be introduced to primary and secondary research, utilize various library resources, evaluate sources, and synthesize and apply research in accordance with citation, genre conventions and ethical standards. - incorporating research in invention.
- learning and practicing introductory research methods, such as observation and interviews (primary research).
- using library resources and critical techniques of reading (secondary research).
- evaluating source quality in accordance with the conventions of rhetorical contexts.
- adapting citation conventions with recognition of their functions within diverse disciplinary cultures.
3. Writing as Rhetorical Action
Students will gain knowledge of rhetorical principles, and practice addressing different audiences and situations. - learning and applying rhetorical concepts in composition as production.
- considering genre conventions as action in evolving academic, cultural and political contexts.Â
- recognizing the materiality of writing (in technologies, reception, production, circulation).
4. Writing as Academic Practice
Students will build their familiarity with values, strategies, and conventions related to a range of academic contexts and disciplinary conversations. - developing strategies for recognition and negotiation of the range of values, strategies and conventions of writing in academic contexts.
5. Writing as Social Practice
Students will analyze, reflect on, and practice the dynamic use of language in diverse contexts and recognize issues of power, difference and materiality. - considering how writing and writers are situated within social contexts.
- practicing writing in multiple genres and in specific social contexts, including, but not limited to, academic discourses.Â
- promoting understanding of relationships between languages and cultures.
- practicing metacognition as a means of making learning concrete and developing a working, adaptable strategy for composition in ever-changing contexts.
 WRT 205 1. Research Writing as Situated ProcessÂ
Students will recognize and act upon the ways methods, processes, and contexts shape research and writing. - recognizing how research works within, and between, disciplinary communities
- understanding the variability of linguistic and rhetorical norms of research
- considering processes of research and writing appropriate to tasks and contexts
2. Researching and Evaluating Sources Rhetorically
Students will develop reading strategies for invention, rhetorical engagement with sources, and critical dialogue. - developing strategies to engage diverse research resources and participants (textual, human, artifactual)
- employing critical reading strategies for invention and making rich connections
- developing critical search practices in a range of sites (library, subscription, open etc.) in light of research goals and resources
3. Research Writing Within and Across Genres
Students will recognize the role genre plays in determining research forms and practices. - accessing and evaluating a range of genres to explore research questions and topics
- presenting research in a range of genres
- adopting style and citation conventions appropriate to research genres
4. Reflecting on Ethical and Rhetorical Choices
Students will analyze and reflect on how rhetoric and issues of ethics (e.g., respect for and representation of research, engagement across differences of perspective, etc.) affect research across a range of situations within and beyond the classroom. - exploring ethical research, both in the treatment of human participants and textual sources and in the representation of research results
- recognizing and negotiating rhetorical choices for particular audiences and contexts within and beyond the classroom.Â
- reflecting on relationships between rhetoric, cultures, and different ways of knowing
- recognizing and negotiating the available writerly position(s) of the researcher in diverse contexts.
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