Student Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of our undergraduate writing courses, students should be able to meet the following outcomes. In addition, different upper-division courses also meet different outcomes:

• Produce coherent texts within common college-level written forms

• Demonstrate the ability to revise and improve such a text

• Research a topic, develop an argument, and organize supporting details

• Evaluate and synthesize researched information

• Analyze texts to understand how and why they communicate their messages and effects to audiences

• Achieve communicative purposes for different audiences and contexts

• Show evidence of careful sentence-level editing in final drafts at acceptable levels of accuracy in syntax, grammar, semantics, and punctuation

• Exhibit awareness of the relation of one's writing practices and coursework to other academic, professional, and lived contexts

• Evaluate, synthesize, and manage information from a variety of media

Approved by PWR Faculty, May 2014