{"id":17,"date":"2009-02-25T17:08:27","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T21:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/2009\/02\/25\/goals-for-a-writing-class\/"},"modified":"2009-02-25T17:08:27","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T21:08:27","slug":"goals-for-a-writing-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/2009\/02\/25\/goals-for-a-writing-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Goals for a Writing Class?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Task Force on the First-Year Experience has begun meeting. We are a ways from sharing anything with the public, but that will come. Right now we are &#8220;blue sky&#8221; thinking. I&#8217;ve no idea what would come to replace Eng. 103 or Core (if that happens) or who would teach any new courses.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also reflecting upon what I learned during my and Lee&#8217;s Stanford Trip. Stanford requires 6 quarters of courses that include writing, and two of them are in a writing program. PWR 1 and 2.\u00a0 To encourage you to use this blog, I&#8217;m also attaching Julia Bleakney&#8217;s PWR 1 syllabus that she kindly provided us.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a PDF file attached to this post.<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/files\/2009\/02\/syllabus-w09-for-vista-1.pdf\" title=\"Syllabus from Julia Bleakney&#39;s Class\"> Syllabus from Julia Bleakney&#39;s Class<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are some of their goals for the one-quarter (10 week) class:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>make writing assignments in which students carry out increasingly sophisticated forms of rhetorical and contextual analysis, taking into account differences in audience, purpose, and genre.<\/li>\n<li>engage students in conducting research drawing on the University&#39;s rich resources and in identifying, evaluating, and using a range of primary and secondary sources in support of their own research-based arguments.<\/li>\n<li>offer students an opportunity to write for a range of audiences and in several genres.<\/li>\n<li>offer students opportunities for substantive revision of their own work focusing on content, organization, and style as well as for frequent peer review of the work of their colleagues.<\/li>\n<li>provide ample opportunity for individual conferences on writing and for reflection on writing and writing development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Given that Richmond&#8217;s focus is on analytical, persuasive writing in academic contexts (rather than exploration of the self or engagement in contemporary issues), what should we do in something like Eng. 103?\u00a0 Here are our current goals from the common syllabus for Eng. 103:<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"-1\"><strong>Goals for          Students:<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"-1\">Understand principles            common to analytical writing, with and without sources, at the university            level, especially focusing writing on a purpose and supporting assertions            with evidence<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"-1\"> Discern the differences            between personal writing and writing for academic and other audiences,            and show awareness of and aptitude with voice and style appropriate            for these audiences<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"-1\"> Demonstrate a            command of language, at the paragraph and sentence level, appropriate            to survival in UR classrooms after Eng. 103<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"-1\">Develop good research            skills that include the ability to evaluate the reliability and quality            of source material, printed and electronic, especially the importance            to all academic disciplines of refereed\/peer reviewed journals.<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"-1\"><strong>Further Worthwhile          and Optional Goals:<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"-1\">Understand the            relationship of the visual to the textual; learn to &#8220;read&#8221;            images<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"-1\"> Prepare multi-genre            projects that embrace academic thinking and prose, sources, personal            writing, photography, and multimedia<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"-1\"> Integrate technology            in a rich and meaningful way into the research and writing process<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"-1\">Encourage students            to write for a &#8220;real world&#8221; audience beyond the classroom,            if possible for campus or local publication.<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Task Force on the First-Year Experience has begun meeting. We are a ways from sharing anything with the public, but that will come. Right now we are &#8220;blue sky&#8221; thinking. I&#8217;ve no idea what would come to replace Eng. 103 or Core (if that happens) or who would teach any new courses. I&#8217;m also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/2009\/02\/25\/goals-for-a-writing-class\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Goals for a Writing Class?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcsCNV-h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}