Outcomes for the Major in Writing and Rhetoric

Revised and approved by the Faculty of The Writing Program at Syracuse University, May 2, 2016

• Students will produce well-reasoned, well-evidenced arguments
• Students will produce texts that exhibit an attention to establishing an ethical stance toward topic and audience
• Students will produce rhetorically aware, user-centered workplace genres
• Students will produce rhetorically aware work in multiple modalities
• Students will produce texts that engage with issues of the interactions of power, identity, culture, and literacy in their topical and social complexity
• Students will produce texts that engage the historical and cultural contexts of genres and practices of writing
• Students will engage in primary and secondary research and reflect on their research practices and processes