Unit 4

With this unit you will do the following:

Use personal writing about reading in the process of creating public writing about reading.
Become familiar with and practice strategies for generating ideas or exploring specific topics, issues, ideas, or beliefs.

Identify the assumptions you bring to encounters with new texts, ideas, and situations and analyze how those assumptions may shape your reading of and response to those texts, ideas, and situations.
Think critically about other writer's drafts and provide insightful responses to their questions
Provide additional insights and information generated by your own critical thinking about a classmate's draft.

Develop strategies for discovering relevant arguments and/or supporting evidence in outside sources.
Use appropriate research strategies to identify and integrate a variety of ideas and evidence from human, Internet, and library resources into original, cohesive, written texts.E. Use appropriate conventions for citing and documenting source materials correctly and ethically.
Evaluate the quality of explicit and implicit arguments in texts.
Detect and address logical weaknesses in texts.
Identify and respond to the implications of various positions, arguments, or beliefs in written and visual texts.
Evaluate the validity of a text's message as verified by other authoritative sources.

Write for a variety of purposes, including those that support your own learning, growth, and development; those that promote responsible citizenship and engagement through public discourse; and those that allow you to meet the demands of your academic courses.
Generate texts that are not only logical, but also rhetorically effective.
Make responsible and ethical rhetorical choices in the production of texts.
Utilize appropriate rhetorical devices for presenting experiences, ideas, and beliefs in a clearly organized, organic fashion.

Consult with other writers about successive drafts.
Ask evocative questions that help readers think critically about your drafts.
Demonstrate the ability to respond to and edit other writer's texts in an effort to help the writer meet the needs and expectations of different audiences, purposes, and forums.
Evaluate the usefulness of other writer's suggestions.
Edit and proofread your own writing and the writing of others until final drafts are virtually error-free and in compliance with the grammatical and mechanical demands of the rhetorical situation.
Use writing to clarify thinking; demonstrate knowledge; explore, explain, and analyze ideas and experiences; and influence beliefs and action.

Generate texts that move beyond expressing an opinion to supporting a position.
Incorporate appropriate suggestions into a text.
Use appropriate conventions for citing and documenting source materials correctly and ethically.