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Personal Narrative

In this course, you will work to

1.      Recognize the role of language attitudes and standards in empowering, oppressing, and hierarchizing languages and their users, and be open to communicating across different languages and cultures.
  1. Explore and analyze, in writing and reading, a variety of genres and rhetorical situations.
  2. Develop strategies for reading, drafting, collaborating, revising, and editing.
  3. Recognize and practice key rhetorical terms and strategies when engaged in writing situations.
  4. Engage in the collaborative and social aspects of writing processes.
  5. Understand and use print and digital technologies to address a range of audiences.
  6. Locate research sources (including academic journal articles, magazine and newspaper articles) in the library’s databases or archives and on the Internet and evaluate them for credibility, accuracy, timeliness, and bias.
  7. Compose texts that integrate your stance with appropriate sources using strategies such as summary, critical analysis, interpretation, synthesis, and argumentation.
  8. Practice systematic application of citation conventions.