blog assignment

· English 103 introduces students to the fundamentals of rhetoric; to the elements, strategies, and conventions common to persuasion; to the use of those elements, strategies, and conventions in the construction of their own persuasive visual and verbal texts. Upon completion of English 103 students will:

• We found out that this is important by analyzing our own works and other works that we've read.
• We did this by doing intensive reviews of other people's works and telling them how to fix things
• We did this by constantly revising what we've written and never turning them in to be graded.
• We did this by writing in many different styles such as our opinions, information thats been gathered online, and multimodal projects
• I have used this when I write my papers by using the internet to get information and then sometimes asking someone who might know a little bit about what I'm writing about.
• I've done this by making notes while I read so that I can understand what I read later on
• I have done this by making sure that before I write that my paper is formatted correctly
• I work on revising all of my works a little bit at a time so that by the end of the semester when its time for portfolios I'll have them all ready.
• I do this everytime we get into our peer review groups. We all work together on making each others papers better.

Course content & format

· The content and format of English 103 are designed to enable students to achieve the course goals; specifically, students in English 103 will:

• We did this with our peer review groups and when we do our intensive reviews
• As a class we have looked at many different videos or commercials and analyzed the meaning behind them
• We do this in our peer review groups or when we ask a classmate for help.
• We make multiple revisions to each essay and usually we have our classmates review them for us.
• Each time we make a revision we show how we improved on understanding the concepts
• I use information from the internet to back up my ideas as I'm writing
• I have done this with each essay that we have been assigned to write

University Core Curriculum Goals

The central purpose of University Core Curriculum is to enable men and women to live rich and satisfying lives and to undertake the broad responsibilities of citizenship in a free society. Although The University Core Curriculum seeks to discover and nurture individual talents, its primary emphasis is preparation for roles people share as human

• We have learned how to properly back up our information that we are writing about so that it is taken seriously by the people who read it
• By communicating with others in class during our discussions this helps us with our everyday communication skills
• I never tell people that their opinion is wrong because I realize that they have a right to think what they want
• I learned how to do this in each of our essays that we had to write
• Each time we have to get into our peer review groups we are working together to come up with the best final draft possible
• I have done this by using what I already knew when I wrote my essays