By the end of the semester, students should have completed at least 20 pages of revised and edited prose. Below, you will find the English 200 course objectives. By the end of the course, you should be able to do the following:
• Adopt effective process writing strategies, including invention, drafting, analyzing their own drafts and those of others, revising, and editing.
• Construct an argumentative claim and develop and adequately support audience-based reasons.
• Demonstrate ability to respond thoughtfully to peers’ drafts.
• Identify and apply the core concepts of an explicit argument: claims and audience-based reasons, evidence, assumptions/warrants, credibility, conditions of rebuttal, as well as ethos, pathos, and logos.
• Anticipate and rebut counterarguments to their claims, reasons, warrants, or use of
evidence.
• Locate and evaluate appropriate outside research sources and effectively integrate and cite them in their arguments.
• Analyze specific audiences.
• Produce a broad range of arguments for various contexts and audiences: evaluations,
proposals, letters to the editor, etc.
