WR 121 Student EXIT Survey - Wk #11 Fall 2003

WR 121 Student Exit Survey - Week #11, Fall 2003
Instructor: Cora Agatucci

Student Name: _______________________________________ Date______________

WR 121 Fall 2003 CRN #:___________________________

WR 121 Learning Outcomes

WR 121 Learning Outcomes [also stated in our WR 121 Syllabus] identify key knowledge and skills that are taught in WR 121 and that students must demonstrate they have learned
by the end of this term in order to earn a passing grade of "C" or higher in WR 121.

Directions: Read each of the WR 121 Learning Outcomes statements below and rate your knowledge and skill in each area at Week #11 EXIT from WR 121, using this rating scale:

5 = A or Excellent; 4 = B or Very Good; 3 = C or Adequate;
2 = D or Poor; 1 = Failing; 0 = No Experience or Don't Know

___ Learning Outcome 1. Write essays that use a thesis to establish control over content; supply relevant and adequate supporting details drawn from observation, personal experience and/or responsive reading; employ the organizational strategies of effective beginnings, transitions, and endings; and conform to standard edited English.

___ Learning Outcome 2 Achieve outcome 1 under time constraints (prior to the final exam), while conforming to expectations of an assigned topic and of edited English appropriate for timed writing.

___ Learning Outcome 3 Demonstrate the ability to use a variety of expository essay patterns, such as definition, classification, analysis, problem-solution, and comparison-contrast.

___ Learning Outcome 4 Employ one or more sources responsibly (without plagiarizing) in a summary or another writing assignment.

___ Learning Outcome 5 Demonstrate, in an essay, a sustained style employing rhetorically effective tone, persona, diction, idiom, and syntax.

___ Learning Outcome 6 Use critical reading and writing to analyze and synthesize ideas in an academic writing sample, identifying rhetorical patterns, major assertions, and supporting details.

___ Learning Outcome 7 Complete appropriate written critical peer reviews of student essay drafts, including suggestions for revision and editing.

___ Learning Outcome 8 Complete at least one (formal or informal) written review of the student's own writing strengths and weaknesses, including effective self-prescriptions for improvement.

___ Learning Outcome 9 Demonstrate, monitor, and articulate the complete idiosyncratic process that the individual writer uses to complete an essay, including such steps as invention, thesis formation, organization, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading

___ Learning Outcome 10 Demonstrate an awareness of a variety of purposes and audiences.

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