Standard syllabus
College composition · Undergraduate · English / Reading / Writing
Learning objectives from the College composition syllabus, grouped by unit. Click an objective for study materials.
Learning objectives
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Rhetorical foundations
- Analyze purpose, audience, and context for writing tasks — Analyze purpose, audience, and context for writing tasks
- Read like a writer: claim, evidence, and organization in mentor texts — Read like a writer: claim, evidence, and organization in mentor texts
- Distinguish summary, analysis, and argument — Distinguish summary, analysis, and argument
- Practice invention strategies (freewriting, outlining, questioning) — Practice invention strategies (freewriting, outlining, questioning)
- Develop a writing process with feedback loops — Develop a writing process with feedback loops
Essay genres
- Write personal/literacy narratives as assigned — Write personal/literacy narratives as assigned
- Compose analytical essays about texts or cultural artifacts — Compose analytical essays about texts or cultural artifacts
- Build arguments with reasons, evidence, and warrants — Build arguments with reasons, evidence, and warrants
- Use comparison, cause/effect, and definition as needed — Use comparison, cause/effect, and definition as needed
- Craft introductions, transitions, and conclusions intentionally — Craft introductions, transitions, and conclusions intentionally
Style, research intro, and integrity
- Revise globally (structure) and locally (sentences) — Revise globally (structure) and locally (sentences)
- Edit for clarity, concision, and conventions — Edit for clarity, concision, and conventions
- Introduce source use: quotation, paraphrase, citation — Introduce source use: quotation, paraphrase, citation
- Practice academic integrity and avoid plagiarism — Practice academic integrity and avoid plagiarism
- Use peer review productively — Use peer review productively
What each unit includes
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- Study guide
- Exam Strategy
- Common Mistakes
- Worksheets
- Word problems
- Mixed Practice
- Multi-Unit Problems
- Review
- Practice test
- Answer key
Study units
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- Rhetorical foundations
Analyze purpose, audience, and context for writing tasks
Coming soon - Essay genres
Write personal/literacy narratives as assigned
Coming soon - Style, research intro, and integrity
Revise globally (structure) and locally (sentences)
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