Written Communication General Education (LVWA/B)
RCS 111: College Writing and Research (LVWB)
Students are able to:
- develop and respond to a research question with a controlling idea, using a logical organization appropriate for the writer’s argument or other rhetorical purpose.
- demonstrate facility in use of language that reflects awareness of audience, purpose, and genre through appropriate vocabulary and sentence style;, including considerations of how notions of correctness and appropriacy in writing are connected to broader social relations.
- summarize, evaluate, and synthesize a variety of primary and secondary research materials from various disciplines, modes, perspectives, and language traditions for the purpose of making explicit links between one’s own ideas and those of others.
- demonstrate research and research writing as a recursive process, using multiple drafts to plan, organize, edit, revise, and proofread work.
- demonstrate control and application of disciplinary citation and language conventions.
RCS 110: College Writing (LVWA)
Students will:
- state explicitly a claim or thesis and develop this assertion using a logical organization appropriate for the writer’s argument or other rhetorical purpose.
- summarize, analyze, and synthesize a variety of sources for various rhetorical purposes.
- develop facility in use of language that reflects awareness of audience and purpose through appropriate vocabulary, and through varied sentence structure and style, including considerations of how notions of correctness and appropriacy in writing are connected to broader social relations.
- demonstrate writing as a recursive process, using multiple drafts to plan, organize, edit, revise, and proofread work.
- write with an awareness of language’s relationship to power, privilege, and identity with knowledge of how language varieties come to be socially valued or devalued, including that of standard written edited English.
- use citation practices and acknowledge intellectual property in different disciplines and contexts.
RCS 109: Academic Writing for Multilingual Writers
Students are able to:
- understand and use various strategies for each stage of the writing process: generating ideas, organizing, drafting, revising, giving/receiving peer feedback, editing, and proofreading;
- summarize and respond to main ideas in texts;
- cite and credit sources when quoting and paraphrasing materials;
- state a claim or thesis explicitly and provide supporting evidence for an argument or purpose;
- compose purposefully with attention to audience in several genres in both print and electronic environments; and
- demonstrate basic sentence structure and sentence variety.