Course Evaluation Criteria
Though each document you produce
will differ in either genre or purpose from the others, each will be evaluated
in the following four categories:
Rhetorical Knowledge
Students will show they can
- Identify, articulate, and focus on a defined purpose
- Respond to the need of the appropriate audience
- Respond appropriately to different rhetorical situations
- Use conventions of format and structure appropriate to the rhetorical situation
- Adopt appropriate voice, tone, and level of formality
- Understand how each genre helps to shape the writing and how readers respond
to it
- Write in multiple genres
- Understand the role of a variety of technologies/media in accessing, retrieving, and communicating information
- Use appropriate technologies to organize, present, and communicate information to address a range
of audiences, purposes, and genres
Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing
Students will show they can
- Use information, writing, and reading for inquiry, learning, thinking, and
communicating
- Understand that research, like writing, is a series of tasks, including
accessing, retrieving, evaluating, analyzing, and synthesizing appropriate
information from sources that vary in content, format, structure, and scope
- Understand the relationships among language, knowledge, and power including
social, cultural, historical, and economic issues related to information,
writing, and technology
- Recognize, understand, and analyze the context within which language, information,
and knowledge are produced, managed, organized, and disseminated
- Integrate previously held beliefs, assumptions, and knowledge with new information
and the ideas of others to accomplish a specific purpose within a context
Processes
Students will show they can
- Be aware that it usually takes multiple drafts to create and complete a
successful text
- Develop research strategies appropriate to the context and situaton
- Develop flexible strategies for generating, revising, editing, and proof-reading
- Understand research and writing as an open process that permits writers to use later
invention and re-thinking to revise their work
- Understand the collaborative and social aspects of research and writing processes
- Learn to critique their own and others' works
- Learn to balance the advantages of relying on others with the responsibility
of doing their part
- Use appropriate technologies to manage information collected or generated
for future use
Knowledge of Conventions
Students will show they
can
- Learn common formats for different genres
- Learn standard tools for accessing and retrieving information
- Learn and apply appropriate standards, laws, policies, and accepted practices
for the use of a variety of technologies
- Develop knowledge of genre conventions ranging from structure and paragraphing
to tone and mechanics
- Apply appropriate means of documenting their work
- Control such surface features as syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling
- Understand and apply legal and ethical uses of information and technology
including copyright and intellectual property
- Understand and apply appropriate standards for use of technology including
accessibility