The 2021 Writing and Assessment CAIT aimed to revise the learning objectives of the Composition Program and develop a shared understanding of these goals for Writing faculty, students, and other UO colleagues.
The Composition Program learning objectives below, approved in Spring 2022, describe the skills and abilities students should have as a result of completing the writing requirement at UO.
Writing instructors in the CAIT also developed teaching guides to accompany each program outcome. These guides were created to provide an orientation to these objectives, define key terms, and share classroom applications and additional resources related to each objective. These guides are intended to evolve over time.
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Writing in Context Develop arguments in multiple genres that are relevant to students and to the audiences to which they’re addressed. |
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Research and Inquiry Engage with primary, scholarly, and public sources to enrich a process of inquiry and inform students’ writing. |
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Analysis Analyze how writers reflect, challenge, and transform their discourse communities, including in their relationship to formal and stylistic conventions. |
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Agency and Positionality Recognize lived experience as a source of authority in writing, reading, and discourse. |
Guide: Feedback and Revision |
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Feedback and Revision Give and receive constructive feedback; revise based on feedback, further research, and reflection. |
Guide: Feedback and Revision |
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Transferring Skills Apply the processes and strategies of writing to engage with new contexts and communities in the University of Oregon and beyond it. |
Guide: Transferring Skills |