Learning Outcomes

ENGL 10803 fulfills the TCU Core Essential Competency, Written Communication 1. The learning outcomes listed below are the goals we are working toward. By the end of ENGL 10803, students should demonstrate:

  1. The ability to write in a range of genres, using appropriate rhetorical conventions, for example:
    • write multiple assignments in different academic genres;
    • write for different rhetorical situations (audience, purpose, genre);
    • produce texts with a controlling idea, appropriate support for their claims, and appropriate conventions of format and structure (including being able to create appropriate organizational structures in the absence of models).Write multiple assignments in several genres, expanding their repertoire beyond predictable forms (e.g. the 5-paragraph essay).
  2. Competency in reading, quoting and citing sources, as well as competency in balancing their own voices with secondary sources, for example:
    • critically read texts for main ideas and arguments, for use of genre conventions, for rhetorical strategy, and for the position of the author;
    • summarize, respond to, and critique texts;
    • find, evaluate, analyze, synthesize and cite appropriate sources to inform and situate their own claims. Find, evaluate, analyze, and synthesize appropriate primary and secondary sources to inform and situate one’s own claims.
  3. The ability to employ flexible strategies for generating and revising their writing, for example:
    • critically read texts for main ideas and arguments, for use of genre conventions, for rhetorical strategy, and for the position of the author;
    • summarize, respond to, and critique texts;
    • find, evaluate, analyze, synthesize and cite appropriate sources to inform and situate their own claims. Find, evaluate, analyze, and synthesize appropriate primary and secondary sources to inform and situate one’s own claims.
  4. Students will engage in multiple methods of inquiry.
  5. Students will explore writers’ cultural positions and the influence of those positions on what and how they write.

Prerequisites / Program or Major Connections

There are no prerequisites for this course.

This course provides an introduction to writing-based inquiry methods necessary for success in future college courses and the workplace. ENGL 10803 Writing as Inquiry, fulfills the WCO 1 Essential Competency in the TCU core and is a prerequisite for ENGL 20803 Writing as Argument.