{"id":19,"date":"2016-01-11T14:27:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T14:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/wri101\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2016-01-11T14:29:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T14:29:22","slug":"goals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/wri101\/goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Goals of Writing 101<\/h3>\n<p>First year students enter Davidson with plenty of reading and writing experience. In Writing 101 you have the opportunity to take these skills to a new level, developing the analytical and argumentative practices you need on your intellectual journey through Davidson&#8217;s curriculum. Every section of Writing 101 embraces four goals:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Reading texts closely and critically for analytical and rhetorical purposes.<\/li>\n<li>Making fair and effective use of the works of others<\/li>\n<li>Drafting and revising arguments.<\/li>\n<li>Drawing upon multimodal and archival resources to serve specific rhetorical goals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The way we attain these goals include the following practices:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Drafting and revising texts\u2014approximately 40 pages of prose throughout the semester, including informal writing, drafts, and revisions.<\/li>\n<li>Giving and receiving generous feedback on your writing from both your peers and me.<\/li>\n<li>Experimenting with various techniques for reading and writing critically.<\/li>\n<li>Encountering texts that can be approached from multiple perspectives with varying intellectual stakes.<\/li>\n<li>Working with librarians to find materials\u2014online and off\u2014that can deepen your engagement and understanding of comics and graphic novels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Learning Outcomes<\/h3>\n<p>By the end of the semester you will be able to:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Read graphic narratives critically, which means asking questions, identifying patterns, and recognizing narrative and visual strategies in these narratives.<\/li>\n<li>Identify a critical question raised by a graphic narrative with significant intellectual, social, political, historical, scientific, or aesthetic interest.<\/li>\n<li>Locate authoritative resources that can help you answer or respond to a critical question.<\/li>\n<li>Compose an argument that articulates a core idea or question, situates it in a larger conversation, and asserts a clear, focused answer or hypothesis.<\/li>\n<li>Select, explain, and represent fairly and accurately relevant supporting and contradictory evidence.<\/li>\n<li>Adapt your writing style to various audiences and platforms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goals of Writing 101 First year students enter Davidson with plenty of reading and writing experience. In Writing 101 you have the opportunity to take these skills to a new level, developing the analytical and argumentative practices you need on your intellectual journey through Davidson&#8217;s curriculum. Every section of Writing 101 embraces four goals: Reading &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/wri101\/goals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Goals&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/wri101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/wri101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/wri101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/wri101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/wri101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/wri101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/wri101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/wri101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}