Drexel+Writing+Student+Learning+Outcomes


 * W-01 WRITING/COMPOSING: **

W-1.1 ** : //Writing to Learn (Critical thinking):// Students will use informal, first-draft writing as a tool to engage complexity and consider open-ended questions. //This writing is not intended for an external audience.//
 * Writing assignments will not all be graded final projects, but will include informal, ungraded assignments that allow students to pose questions and think through ideas.


 * W-1.2 ** : //Writing for an Audience:// Students will use the composition process to create final documents ready to be viewed by external audiences, and will assess their progress toward meeting this goal.
 * W-1.2a ** : //Revision and Assessment:// To develop effective texts, students will utilize a composing process that includes planning, drafting, revising (including gathering feedback), assessing progress toward a goal, and attention to final presentation. As the final step of revision, students will mitigate surface errors that can impede clear communication.
 * Assignments will include rubrics that clearly state the goal of the process by listing characteristics of successful responses. Rubrics can be faculty or student-created.
 * Assignments will guide students through stages of the composition process.
 * Assignments will require due dates for drafts and final projects to encourage attention to the stages of composition.
 * Assignments will require peer and/or faculty comments as part of the revision/composition process to foster collaboration and reflection.
 * Assignments will incorporate self-assessment toward meeting the desired goal of the project as part of the revision process.
 * Assignments will direct students to proofread/copyedit/review their final work.


 * W-1.2b ** : //Design:// Students will use design elements suitable to the audience and purpose of their documents.
 * Assignments will require students to choose design elements suitable to a particular field or discipline.


 * R-01 Reading Process : **

R 1.1a ** : //Research Reading:// Students will actively read formal academic and informal texts (such as journals, web media, email correspondence, interviews, government documents, etc.) to develop, support, and enhance ideas.
 * R-1.1: ** //Active Reading// // and Inquiry: // In order to gain and support knowledge through reading, students will read actively and approach the reading of a text analytically.
 * Assignments will encourage students to consider how particular texts compare to others they have read/written.
 * Assignments will encourage students to use active reading skills as they respond to texts in discussion and in writing.
 * Assignments will ask students to evaluate and analyze the sources they find.
 * Assignments will use research reading as a means to explore and develop ideas and to test theories and theses, not simply to bolster ideas that are already formed.


 * R-1.1a.1: **// Visual Literacy: // Students will use an active reading process to read charts, graphs, and multi-media texts, and to see the rhetorical importance of those visuals.
 * Assignments will expose students to a variety of non-linear texts and guide students’ active reading of such texts.


 * W-02, R-02 WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINE OR FIELD: **


 * R 2.1 ** : //Discipline-Specific Reading:// Students will understand the role(s) writing plays in the discourse of a particular field or discipline.
 * Assignments will expose students to discipline- or field-specific texts.
 * Assignments will ask students to identify characteristics of discipline- or field-specific communication and how it is shaped by audience and purpose.


 * W 2.1 ** //Discipline-Specific Writing:// Students will understand and be able to utilize clear communication strategies and writing conventions that support success in a discipline or field.
 * Assignments will demonstrate to students how success in a particular field or discipline requires clear communication skills.
 * Assignments will require the application of discipline-specific writing conventions.
 * Assignments will help students place their texts within a larger conversation within a particular discipline or field.


 * W 2.1a ** : //Discipline-Specific Research-Based Writing:// Students will incorporate formal and informal sources into their own writing to develop, enhance, and support ideas.
 * Assignments will use research-based writing (including labs, reports, graphs, charts, case studies and other discipline-specific genres) to explore and develop ideas and to test theories and theses, not simply to bolster ideas that are already formed.
 * Assignments will ask students to use research-based writing as a way of entering a conversation with discipline-specific peers.