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 perceptions of linguistic standards can affect speakers positively and negatively. | 4 | My Synthesis essay shows how expectations in U.S. school systems can impact immigrant students self-esteem and growth: link to Synthesis Essay |
| 2 | Explore and analyze, in writing and reading, a variety of genres and rhetorical situations. | Identify and apply rhetoric language/device and explore different genres. | 4 | This is the Rhetorical Situation Worksheet for the article, “Nobody Mean More to Me than You and the Future Life of Willie Jordan” by June Jordan: link to worksheet |
| 3 | Develop strategies for reading, drafting, collaborating, revising, and editing. | Create a plan, incorporate feedback, and refine essays. | 5 | The cover letter for my Language and Literacy Narrative depicts my growth in the first major essay: link to LLN Essay |
| 4 | Recognize and practice key rhetorical terms and strategies when engaged in writing situations. | Identify certain usages of rhetoric devices and strategies throughout various texts and utilize them in writing. | 5 | My Language and Literacy Narrative shows my usage of rhetorical devices: link to LLN Essay |
| 5 | Understand and use print and digital technologies to address a range of audiences. | Use multimedia to convey ideas in your writing. | 5 | My Language and Literacy Narrative and Synthesis essay shows my progress of multimedia usage: link to LLN Essay & link to Synthesis 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. | Use a variety of sources in your writing from the internet, including the school library. Ensure they are credible when it comes to bias, accuracy, and within the timeframe. | 5 | My Synthesis essay shows how I utilized a variety of sources: link to Synthesis Essay |
| 7 | Compose texts that integrate a stance with appropriate sources, using strategies such as summary, analysis, synthesis, and argumentation. | Clearly introduce your sources, present their credibility, and provide an in depth analysis of how it relates to your claim. | 4 | My Synthesis essay shows how I used the 2-sentence summary method when citing sources: link to Synthesis Essay |
| 8 | Practice systematic application of citation conventions. | Use proper citations. | 5 | Page 10 of my synthesis essay shows how I used proper APA citations: link to Synthesis Essay |
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