Sample Assignments – Kelli Lycke

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English 120 builds on the rhetorical approach to composition introduced in English 110, 111/112, or 113 by asking students to create projects for particular audiences, contexts, purposes, and mediums. Students also extend their understanding of modes of communication by incorporating visual and audio elements to their compositions as appropriate to their audience.

English 120 emphasizes academic writing, research, and argumentation. Students must learn how to summarize, synthesize and evaluate primary and secondary sources for research before integrating them into an argument that engages their academic discipline.
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Student Learning Outcomes

Analyze, compose, and reflect on arguments in a variety of genres, considering the strategies, claims, evidence, and various mediums and technologies that are appropriate to the rhetorical situation
Use writing and research as a means of discovery to examine students’ personal beliefs in the context of multiple perspectives and to explore focused research questions through various mediums and technologies
Integrate others’ positions and perspectives into compositions ethically, appropriately, and effectively in various mediums and technologies

Overview

The purpose of this unit is to have students think about how their beliefs and experiences contribute to their writing. Students explain their core beliefs and explore how they were shaped. Students read various multi-media belief statements including UNM’s Lobo Common reader, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, and examine the difference between opinion and beliefs. They consider elements of organization and style to construct sounds definitions of their beliefs supported by anecdotes, imagery, and exposition. Finally, students choose an audience to whom they will explain their beliefs. They must revise their manifestos to meet the new rhetorical situation and consider how different audiences and mediums change their writing.
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Student Learning Outcomes

Integrate others’ positions and perspectives into compositions ethically, appropriately, and effectively in various mediums and technologies
Compose a research-based academic argument in one of various mediums and technologies by identifying, analyzing, evaluating, and synthesizing sources, which must include secondary sources

Overview

The purpose of this sequence is to teach students how to conduct ethic research through a topic of their choice. Students explore a problem within their discourse community by developing questions about the problem. They learn how to navigate call numbers and online databases. Students also learn to evaluate the credibility and bias of a variety of sources. I ask students to suspend their own biases as they embark on their inquiry process. This annotated bibliography serves as the groundwork for the proposal in the third sequence.
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Student Learning Outcomes

Use multiple approaches for planning, researching, prewriting, composing, assessing, revising, editing, proofreading, collaborating, and incorporating feedback in order to make compositions stronger in various mediums and using multiple technologies
Use writing and research as a means of discovery to examine students’ personal beliefs in the context of multiple perspectives and to explore focused research questions through various mediums and technologies
Compose a research-based academic argument in one of various mediums and technologies by identifying, analyzing, evaluating, and synthesizing sources, which must include secondary sources

Overview

The purpose of this assignment is to teach students how to synthesize their research by proposing a viable solution the problem they highlighted in sequence 2. First, students consider all of the stakeholders in their problem and the values, stakes, and powers of each stakeholder. Then, they must outline a solution to the problem. Students select an audience for their proposal and make decisions about modes. As students complete their videos, podcasts, or presentations, they learn about how visual rhetoric enhances their message.
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Student Learning Outcomes

Analyze, compose, and reflect on arguments in a variety of genres, considering the strategies, claims, evidence, and various mediums and technologies that are appropriate to the rhetorical situation
Self-evaluate development as a writer over the course of the semester and describe how composing in multiple genres and mediums using various technologies can be applied in other contexts to advance students’ goals
Use writing and research as a means of discovery to examine personal beliefs in the context of multiple perspectives and to explore focused research questions through various mediums and technologies.

Overview

Students use a blog to document their learning journey throughout the semester. They complete weekly entries that allow them to explore what they are learning in a low-stakes, reflective space. As they do so, students comment and offer feedback to their peers, learn how to use various technologies, and incorporate design and various media into their portfolio.
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