Extra Credit Option: Student Learning Outcomes Self-Assessment & Reflection

Please respond to the following prompt. If written in Microsoft Word, your response would be around 3-4 pages, typed, double-spaced. The deadline to post this optional extra credit assignment is August 11th by 11:59pm (PST):

1) Considering the student learning outcomes articulated on our syllabus, and pasted below, (not to mention development by the English department, approved by the Arts & Humanities division and accredited by the State of Washington), how has your experience with the course content and assignments helped you progress through these aforementioned goals?

Course Objectives (Student Learning Outcomes):

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Think and read critically: carefully read, analyze, interpret and evaluate claims, beliefs, texts and/or issues.

frame questions, define problems, and position arguments.
consider multiple points of view and differentiate between assumptions, beliefs, facts, opinions, and biases.
read and respond to various texts critically for purposes of interpretation, analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and/or judgment.
demonstrate an understanding of a text’s main point/thesis and its relevant supporting details.
Compose and revise in context: shape written responses for different audiences and purposes.

consider flexible strategies for prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing.
develop and support thesis statements that are appropriately complex and significant.
construct unified paragraphs with topic sentences and supporting details that advance the thesis.
apply various methods of development such as illustration, comparison and contrast, and/or analysis.
balance their individual voices with those from other texts.
employ style, tone, and mechanical conventions appropriate to the demands of a particular audience or purpose.
Reflect and evaluate: recognize and incorporate newly acquired skills.

develop the ability to critique their own and others’ work.
gain a clearer perspective of habits that may detract from the effectiveness of their own writing.
respond to comments from their instructor and peers.
The deadline to post this optional extra credit assignment is August 11th by 11:59pm (PST):

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