E100 Weekly Learning Objectives
You can find a Google Doc version of this information here.
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:
- Describe Sequence 1 on narrative
- Write a reflection that engages with readings rhetorically
- 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:
- Identify invention strategies that are effective for you
- Explain writing as a process and how this class will engage with that process
- Describe your own drafting and revision process
- Write reflectively about your short writing assignment to self-assess your work
- 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:
- Discuss how a story or narrative is rhetorical, that is, intentional in the way the story or narrative is being told
- Describe how showing and telling work differently and when one might be more effective than the other
- Use descriptive language in your writing to communicate details, information, ideas, and experiences
- 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:
- Explain how narrative can be used for inquiry through primary research such as observation and interviews
- Describe effective strategies for conferencing
- Draft a reflective Writer’s Memo for your midterm portfolio
- Revise Writing Project 1 using feedback you received.
- Create Portfolio 1
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:
- Explain how and why information is used rhetorically
- 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:
- Explain how to determine the reliability of a source
- Describe your search process for finding sources to support your research
- Write an annotation and citation using the appropriate citation style for your chosen discipline
- 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:
- Explain how to use research databases to find sources [or the reliability of your sources]
- Describe the difference between academic research sources, mainstream information sources, and unreliable information sources
- Write brief summaries of research sources
- 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:
- Explain summary, analysis, and synthesis
- Describe the argument/claims being made in a research source
- Write a summary and analysis of multiple sources and synthesize their arguments/claims
- Draft an annotated bibliography
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:
- Explain how sources are used to support research projects
- Describe the organization of an essay and how this makes the essay effective
- Write a proposal for your Sequence 3 Writing Project
- Draft an abstract that introduces a topic, research question, and argument.
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:
- Explain how and why your research question has changed
- Describe or preview your argument (or in other words, how are you answering your research question?)i
- Write claims or reasons that support your larger 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:
- Explain the rhetorical situation of your project: its purpose, audience, and approach
- Discuss and demonstrate various ways to integrate sources
- Write a paragraph that conveys similar information to varied audiences
- Draft Writing Project 3
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:
- Explain why your research matters
- Describe the organization of your project and why you believe this is effective
- Describe your research process
- Discuss principles of revision and revision your Sequence 3 Writing Project
Week 13
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:
- Explain some features of an effective presentation
- Describe your plan for your presentation
- Write an outline or script for your presentation
- Draft some talking points for Q&A
- Explain your design choices
- Describe how your multimodal elements contribute to the effectiveness of your presentation
- Explain why a presentation was effective
- Describe the rhetorical elements of presentation design
- Draft a brief thank you/congratulatory note to the presenter
Weeks 14/15
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:
- Write a Writer’s Memo for your Final Portfolio
- Edit and proofread your Final Portfolio
- Reflect on your learning in English 100