In order to accomplish our learning goals in English 104, we’ll be:
- Learning and applying the fundamentals of close, critical reading to a variety of visual and verbal texts to identify rhetorical elements, strategies, and conventions
- Collaborating in developing ideas, analyzing visual and verbal texts, and providing peer feedback to one another
- Composing knowledge through multiple methods of inquiry and research, revising our writing based on peer feedback and self reflection
- Reflecting on how research can help us understand the ways cultural texts work to socially construct the world around us
- Completing a variety of writing assignments for multiple purposes, audiences, and contexts, using various media, and including primary, secondary, qualitative and quantitative research.
