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This English 1102 course asked students to consider how health functions +as a social ideal and regulates our actions based on the norms, +attitudes, and ideas that prevail in our culture. +In addition to this course-specific theme, there is a set of common objectives that this course was designed to +teach, developing a Writing Process with revision, synthesis, and +drafting and rhetorically effective presentation for distinct audiences +and contexts. +Revision and research play a large role in developing ideas and +arguments and making the arguments robust. +While this recursive, iterative process played a role in every +assignment, the digital reading journal is the primary source of process +documents.

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Assigned prompts in the reading journal correspond to class readings +and ask students to develop arguments and ideas based on course +material. +Sourcing and eventual finetuning of these ideas both play a role in the +journal: in most entries, we were asked to use quotes and references +from both class material and pop culture or general research. +This is especially visible in the final post ("Medical Devices, the +DMCA, and the corporate profit motive"), where I used links to other +websites to make it a better document to refer back to later. +Images and analysis also emphasized the role of the digital reading +journal as a process document for my analysis of specific works or +the overall health theme. +But each entry also marks my progress in the general skills of analysis +and rhetoric, especially. +The electronic form factor has unique norms and options to elaborate, +like a less formalistic style and heavy image presence, and these can +change the rhetorical strategy I use when sectioning and emphasis are +much more fluent than an essay. +

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+The use of images actually enhances my analysis, too, because I'm +responding to the ideas that another work provides, and if I can +directly include that work, it becomes much easier to speak about since +the audience is meant to refer back to it and familiarize themselves. +When the audience is me, this anchors my ideas to a specific factual +reference, like the timeline in "HeLa and Henrietta." +

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+Quotes and the use of photos to highlight what's important is particular +to the electronic medium, and it's particularly valuable when creating a +personal reference piece. +This is one example of shifting language and presentation towards the +desired audience and situation, which is one of the major points of the +Rhetoric Learning Outcome. +

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Outcomes by the USG Board of Regents

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Outcomes by the Council of Writing Program + Administrators

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Additional Expectations of the GTWCP +

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Rhetoric

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Rhetoric focuses on available means of +persuasion, considering the synergy of factors such as context, +audience, purpose, role, argument, organization, design, visuals, and +conventions of language.

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  • Adapt communication to circumstances and +audience.
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  • Produce communication that is +stylistically appropriate and mature.
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  • Communicate in standard English for +academic and professional contexts.
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  • Sustain a consistent purpose and point of +view.
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  • Use a variety of technologies to address a range of + audiences.
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  • Learn common formats for different kinds of texts.
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  • Develop knowledge of genre conventions ranging from structure + and paragraphing to tone and mechanics.
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  • Control such surface features as syntax, grammar, punctuation, + and spelling.
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  • Create artifacts that demonstrate the +synergy of rhetorical elements.
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  • Demonstrate +adaptation of register, language, and conventions for specific contexts +and audiences.
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  • Apply strategies for communication in and +across both academic disciplines and cultural contexts in the community +and the workplace.
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