Self-Assessment
| # | Learning Goal Write below (verbatim) all course learning outcomes listed in the syllabus. | Your Paraphrase Rewrite each course learning outcome in your own words. | Score 0-5 Rate your learning (see score key above) | Evidence of Learning Briefly describe an example (or provide a hyperlink to your work) to demonstrate your level of learning. |
| 1 | Examine how attitudes towards linguistic standards empower and oppress language users. | Explore how views on language standards can affect speakers positively and negatively | 5 | Learning this topic helped me see that language rules are not fair or equal for everyone. I learned that the way people judge language can make some groups feel left out and not the same as people who speak “proper English”. I found this through researching my thesis for my synthesis essay. |
| 2 | Explore and analyze, in writing and reading, a variety of genres and rhetorical situations. | Reading and understanding different genres and how they work. | 5 | In the first month or two of the class, going over several different readings opened me up to many different genres. Like personalized essays, poems, and more. |
| 3 | Develop strategies for reading, drafting, collaborating, revising, and editing. | Workshopping different ways to understand, peer review, and revise work | The change of my concluding paragraph in my synthesis shows how I both revised and edited my work. Through peer reviews and feedback, I was able to do this. | |
| 4 | Recognize and practice key rhetorical terms and strategies when engaged in writing situations. | Identify and apply important language concepts and techniques while writing. | 4 | “My nose was met by the nasty smell of the hallway as my ears filled with the chime from the bells on top of the door”. I use strategies like descriptive language as well as my own form of language that I learned through my own experiences to write this. |
| 5 | Understand and use print and digital technologies to address a range of audiences. | Knowing how to use physical and digital technology to communicate with the audience | 3 | In my synthesis essay, I use both articles like parents.com as well as long-form books like https://tcf.org/content/report/ensuring-equitable-access-to-dual-language-immersion-programs-supporting-english-learners-emerging-bilingualism/. Using both of these, I was able to more strongly get across my point to any audience who read my essay. |
| 6 | Locate research sources (including academic journal articles, magazine and newspaper articles) in the library’s databases or archives and on the Internet and evaluate them for credibility, accuracy, timeliness, and bias. | Finding the correct resources to use that are credible through the database and the internet | 5 | The works cited page was made through sources found in the database and other trustworthy sources. I was able to learn this through the day we spent with the librarian, where we learned new techniques to research. |
| 7 | Compose texts that integrate a stance with appropriate sources, using strategies such as summary, analysis, synthesis, and argumentation. | Writing an essay that has a clear viewpoint while bringing in sources through summarizing, analyzing, combining ideas, and arguing your point. | 5 | During the composition of my synthesis essay, I learned several of these strategies, like how to connect two sources to strengthen my essay. How to create a thesis based on what I wanted to argue and how to explain the evidence I took from my sources. |
| 8 | Practice systematic application of citation conventions. | Using the correct form of citations in your writing | 4 | In my synthesis essay, when writing, I learned how to put in-text citations using author and page number as well how to properly format a works cited page. |
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