These learning objectives correspond to the three-sequence curriculum that is standard in the English 100 Program. They are for the use of both students and instructors, to guide planning and expectations. For individual sections, instructors may make small shifts in timing, as needed, or fine-tune objectives to more precisely match their assignments and calendars.  (2-day/week calendars will vary from 3-day/week calendars.)

Week 1

This week you will learn:

• Who is in this class with you
• What is valued in English 100 and how this class will be useful to you
• How to navigate Canvas
• Course expectations and the importance of your contributions
• Approaches to reading and writing rhetorically
• Freewriting strategies for generating text

By the end of this week, you should be able to:

1. Describe Sequence 1 on narrative
2. Write a reflection that engages with readings rhetorically
3. Draft your first short assignment for the course

Week 2

This week you will learn:

• The invention process for generating ideas/topics
• How to develop your drafting and revision process
• To consider multiple perspectives on language
• Strategies for an effective workshop group
• How portfolios are used in English 100

By the end of this week, you should be able to:

1. Identify effective invention strategies and narrative evidence
2. Explain writing as a process and how this class will engage with that process
3. Describe your own drafting and revision process
4. Write reflectively about your short writing assignment to self-assess your work
5. Practice giving effective feedback and recognize how feedback can be useful to you

Week 3

This week you will learn:

• The rhetorical moves of narrative and how stories are rhetorical
• The differences between showing and telling
• How to develop your descriptive and observational writing
• The difference between revision and editing

By the end of this week, you should be able to:

1. Discuss how a story or narrative is rhetorical, that is, intentional in the way the story or narrative is being told
2. Describe how showing and telling work differently and when one might be more effective than the other
3. Use descriptive language in your writing to communicate details, information, ideas, and experiences
4. Draft Writing Project 1

Week 4

This week you will learn:

• Strategies for effective conferencing
• How to do reflective writing for a purpose and self-assessment
• How narrative can be used as a mode of inquiry
• Observation or other primary research skills

By the end of this week, you should be able to:

1. Explain how narrative can be used for inquiry through primary research such as observation and interviews
2. Describe effective strategies for conferencing
3. Draft a reflective Writer’s Memo for your midterm portfolio
4. Revise Writing Project 1 using feedback you received.
5. Create Midterm Portfolio

Week 5

This week you will learn:

• How to understand information as part of an ecosystem
• Critical reading skills for the evaluation of sources
• About the relationship between information and rhetoric
• About sources and reliability

By the end of this week, you should be able to:

1. Explain how and why information is used rhetorically
2. Describe the process for determining the reliability of sources

Week 6

This week you will learn:

• How to create and develop a research question
• How to summarize effectively
• How to identify and evaluate sources as part of the research process
• How to analyze sources for reliability
• How to integrate sources into your writing

By the end of this week, you should be able to:

1. Explain how to determine the reliability of a source
2. Describe your search process for finding sources to support your research
3. Write a research question that is clear and focused.

Week 7

This week you will learn:

• How to navigate research databases available through the UW Libraries
• How to identify academic research sources, mainstream information sources, and unreliable information sources
• How to work with university librarians to support your research
• About other services and resources available through the university libraries

By the end of this week, you should be able to:

1. Explain how to use research databases to find sources [or the reliability of your sources]
2. Describe the difference between academic research sources, mainstream information sources, and unreliable information sources
3. Write an annotation and citation using the appropriate citation style for your chosen discipline
4. Draft a research plan to guide your next project

Week 8

This week you will learn:

• How to do rhetorical analysis of a research source to understand its argument and value for your project
• How to put different sources in conversation with each other
• How to create more complex connections between points of view/positions
• How to synthesize sources to communicate information

By the end of this week, you should be able to:

1. Explain summary, analysis, and synthesis
2. Describe the argument/claims being made in a research source
3. Write a summary and analysis of multiple sources and synthesize their arguments/claims

Week 9

This week you will learn:

• How to bring together sources to inform a research question(s) that you are developing
• How to organize your content to be effective in communicating information
• About genres that synthesize and communicate information
• Ways to include yourself in your researched writing project

By the end of this week, you should be able to:

1. Explain how sources are used to support research projects
2. Describe the organization of an essay and how this makes the essay effective

Week 10

This week you will learn:

• How to revisit, revise, or develop a new research question
• How to build an argument
• how to support your argument with evidence
• How to answer the “so what” question

By the end of this week, you should be able to:

1. Explain how and why your research question has changed
2. Describe or preview your argument (or in other words, how are you answering your research question?)
3. Write a proposal for your Sequence 3 Writing Project
4. Draft an abstract that introduces a topic, research question, and argument.

Week 11

This week you will learn:

• How to consider the rhetorical situation for your research
• Effective ways to integrate sources to contextualize your research
• How to make choices that affect the tone of your writing

By the end of this week, you should be able to:

1. Explain the rhetorical situation of your project: its purpose, audience, and approach
2. Discuss and demonstrate various ways to integrate sources
3. Draft a research plan to guide your next project
4. Write claims or reasons that support your larger argument

Week 12

This week you will learn:

• How to summarize your own research
• How to organize your project
• How to present key points briefly but with purpose
• How to write a strong conclusion
• How to position yourself as the researcher

By the end of this week, you should be able to:

1. Explain why your research matters
2. Describe the organization of your project and why you believe this is effective
3. Describe your research process
4. Begin drafting Writing Project 3

Week 13

This week you will learn:

• To revise your final argument
• To write reflective documents
• To discuss and revise your final argument

By the end of this week, you should be able to:

1. Draft Writing Project 3
2. Describe their research process
3. Discuss principles of revision and revise their Sequence 3 Writing Project

Week 14

This week you will learn:

• To plan a presentation
• To identify the rhetorical situation for a presentation
• To identify rhetorical strategies for an effective presentation
• How to create effective slides for a presentation
• How to offer feedback on presentations
• How to be a compassionate and productive audience member
• How/why design is a writing/rhetorical practice

By the end of this week, you should be able to:

1. Explain some features of an effective presentation
2. Describe your plan for your presentation
3. Write an outline or script for your presentation
4. Draft some talking points for Q&A
5. Explain your design choices
6. Describe how your multimodal elements contribute to the effectiveness of your presentation
7. Explain why a presentation was effective
8. Describe the rhetorical elements of presentation design

Week 15

This week you will learn:

• How to assess your work over the course of the semester
• How to present your work in a Final Portfolio

By the end of this week, you should be able to:

1. Present your work to their classmates
2. Write a Writer’s Memo for your Final Portfolio
3. Edit and proofread your Final Portfolio
4. Reflect on your learning in English 100