Learning Goal
Develop close readers and effective writers, as defined by the AAC&U VALUE Rubrics.
Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)
- Students will analyze academic texts and materials by applying “close reading” strategies.
- Read critically to evaluate a text and recognize its implications.
- Articulate an understanding of various interpretive reading strategies based on genres and their conventions.
- Use needed strategies to work through different sorts of texts.
- Discuss texts in structured ways that contribute to and enhance academic discourse.
- Connect sources and works with their historical and/or social contexts.
- Use texts to build knowledge and raise and explore important questions.
2. Students will demonstrate effective academic writing through “close reading” strategies.
- Demonstrate strategic knowledge of the writing process.
- Compose texts that clearly convey meaning through tone, style, purpose, and genre.
- Adapt writing knowledge to new contexts, including rhetoric in digital spaces.
- Incorporate constructive criticism of drafts in the writing process.
- Demonstrate consideration of context and purpose when writing.
- Cite sources in a way that is appropriate for the discipline.
- Master the conventions of Standard American English.