Syllabus Assessment

Course Goals ~ Introduces and develops understanding of principles of rhetoric; basic research methods; elements, strategies, and conventions of persuasion used in constructing written and multi-modal texts. Upon completion of English 103 students will:
1. I feel confident about this because I have learned how to use written words and spoken words to persuade someone while sounding intelligent.
2. I feel confident about this because I have learned that when you are trying to persuade people, you need to realize who you audience is and what their values/beliefs are so you know how to approach the topic.
3. I feel confident with this because I had a lot of experience with evaluating other student's papers while also receiving their input on my papers and learning how to revise my paper according to the suggestions given.
4. I feel better about this topic because of the rhetorical analysis paper that we were assigned. We had to find a text or advertisement to analyze and give evidence and facts as to why we felt a certain way about it.
5. I don't think I really understand this because of the way it is worded; but I do understand how to research things and give evidence to back up the points being made.
6. I believe I gained more confidence in this aspect. I usually get shy when I am critiquing someone's paper because I don't want to completely butcher their paper, but intensive reviews gave me practice in just giving suggestions rather than telling the person that their way is wrong.
7. I feel confident about format, syntax, punctuation, and spelling because of the different resources on the web that are out there for you to check when you do have a question, especially with citing sources.
8. I feel better about this because this class forced me to make time to evaluate 6 different pages when it needs to be done in 2 days, rather than procrastinating. Also, the portfolio that is due next week has made me realize that I need to be working on these papers all of the time, not just the night before.
9. I feel confident about this because of the peer reviews and intensive reviews that we did in class. It helped me to give suggestions to people and how to handle constructive criticism about my own papers.

Course Content & Format ~ The content and format of English 103 are designed to enable students to achieve the course goals; specifically, students in English 103 will:
1.I feel more confident about this because of the intensive and peer reviews that we did in class every few weeks.
2. This aspect was covered very thoroughly with the multimodal assignment we had, wihch helped a lot. The persuasive logics were expressed in each student's website in different ways.
3. Again, I feel confident in this because this was a huge part of the intensive and peer reviews in class.
4. I feel this was convered greatly because of the different drafts that each student had to submit in order for the peer reviews, intensive reviews, and eventually our portfolios next week. Each time these are done there are more corrections/suggestions that are given for each of the four papers.
5. I feel better about this because of the rhetorical analysis and the public writing paper that we were assigned. It helped us to designate an audience, and discuss our point in an intelligent way by using facts, research, and ethos, pathos, logos to give a strong argument.
6. I feel better about this because of the intensive review assignments that we had to read other student's papers and understand what they were saying so that we could give feedback.
7. I feel this was accomplished greatly by the four different papers that were written. We had to do research for 3 out of the 4 of them, and also some secondary research to make sure that the facts and arguments were portrayed correctly and intelligently.

University Core Curriculum Goals ~ The central purpose of University Core Curriculum is to enable men and women to live rich and satisfying lives and to undertake the broad responsibilities of citizenship in a free society. Although The University Core Curriculum seeks to discover and nurture individual talents, its primary emphasis is preparation for roles people share as human beings and as members of family and community groups. Thus, students will be able to:
1. I believe this was accomplished because of the knowledge we learned about rhetorical analysis and persuasion. This will apply when we try to make arguments and write papers in our future.
2. This was accomplished by the speed and amount of work that we accomplished, and the ways that we had to communicate through our papers that needed to be at a college level.
3. This was accomplished by the intensive and peer reviews that we held during class. We had to provide feedback to other students about their papers throughout the semester.
4. This was accomplished through the research I conducted for my different papers throughout the semester.
5. This was touched on when we did our multimodal assignments and we had to provide feedback/suggestions to other students during the peer and intensive reviews about their websites that were supposed to be arguments/persuasive websites.