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Rhetoric Division Outcomes<\/h2>\n

Students who complete the rhetoric courses will be able to demonstrate:<\/p>\n

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  1. Critical Thinking and Reading:<\/strong> To demonstrate strong critical thinking skills in writing and speaking, and to become a careful critical reader of academic texts, showing the ability to consider relationships between form and content and to analyze a writer\u2019s tone, sentence structure, paragraphing, use of outside sources, etc.<\/li>\n
  2. Writing Process:<\/strong> To compose audience-driven papers that are organized, coherent, and stylistically sophisticated; to develop successful and flexible invention, planning, drafting, revision and editing strategies.<\/li>\n
  3. Argument and Rhetorical Awareness:<\/strong> To become a clear and cogent writer of arguments that assert a position and enter an academic conversation, summarizing views held by others and positioning one\u2019s own view (fairly and accurately) in relation to others; to use evidence and reasoning effectively to make a persuasive argument.<\/li>\n
  4. Clarity, Comprehensibility, Mechanics:<\/strong> To observe conventions of standard written English to compose clear sentences and coherent paragraphs; to observe conventions of a range of academic disciplines and writing tasks (including organization, presentation, formatting, mechanics and stylistic choices).<\/li>\n
  5. Research and Documentation:<\/strong> To conduct research using the university\u2019s library resources; to locate, evaluate, organize, and integrate research material collected from both print and electronic sources, including library databases; to distinguish between academic and non-academic sources; to use bibliographies and footnotes to track down additional sources; to document sources fully using appropriate citation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Rhetoric Division Outcomes Students who complete the rhetoric courses will be able to demonstrate: Critical Thinking and Reading: To demonstrate strong critical thinking skills in writing and speaking, and to become a careful critical reader of academic texts, showing the ability to consider relationships between form and content and to analyze a writer\u2019s tone, sentence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":36763,"menu_order":57,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38390,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36797\/revisions\/38390"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}