Syllabus Assignment.

English 103 Course Goals:
English 103 introduces students to the fundamentals of rhetoric; to the elements, strategies, and conventions common to persuasion; to the use of those elements, strategies, and conventions in the construction of their own persuasive visual and verbal texts. Upon completion of English 103 students will:
1: I think we have shown this in our multimodal projects, as we introduced placing pictures with text in order to persuade people of our belief.
2: We learned how to arrange our writing to fit the audience we are aiming for.
3: We learn, through different types of papers we have done, that we all have effective and ineffective writing techniques.
4: We form our own opinions on our papers, and we gradually add more support to our writing as to what we believe, such as in our This I Believe paper.
5: We do this through researching and backing up our ideas, such as we do in our multimodal and public writing papers. We have learned about the beautiful invention that is the library and its lovely database.
6: We have learned through peer and intensive reviews to think about what they are rhetorically trying to say and help think of ideas they might not have thought of before.
7: We have written many drafts and had many other people read our drafts and help us with our errors.
8: We will not blame others for our bad grades (if we get any) and we will learn to manage how much we want to work on a certain assignment.
9: We have our peer review groups that we work with on a routine basis and help each other with our writing skills.

Course Content and 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: We did this with our rhetorical analysis paper. We responded to various songs and commercials and broke them down to find out what they really mean.
2: We give critiques on peer's papers and how they do or do not achieve what they are trying to say.
3: We fully analyze papers constantly, such as in intensive reviews. When someone gives a very good observation/idea, we expand on it during class time to help the student.
4: We implement everyone's critiques in our various drafts of our papers. We each get at least 3 student reviews and Professor McArdle's review each time.
5: We tweak the way we write a paper in order to fit our audiences.
6: Through our rhetorical analysis paper, we were able to make sense of other people's writing and what they were saying to us.
7: With each paper and blog we write, we are using different modes of media and research to tell our point.

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: We have learned not to be intimidated by the man :]
2: We have learned to compose various writing that lets us speak at a more mature level. We have learned to communicate with our classmates and Professor McArdle though reviews and conferences.
3: We have learned not to sound offensive in our papers.
4: We do this in our public writing paper by coming up with solutions to ideas we think are not good.
5: We have worked with other students on a small-group basis and are able to bounce ideas off each other in order for them to solve questions within their paper.
6: We have learned how to utilize our strengths and how to make our weaknesses stronger.