First-Year Composition 2.0

First-Year Composition 2.0 will help you to develop a better process and gain confidence in written, visual, and oral communication and to create and critique documents and presentations in college, in the workplace, and in your community. You will draft and revise the following assignments: a personal essay, an image, and an oral presentation.

You will develop confidence in the following areas:

• Critical Thinking: Evaluate the effectiveness of personal essays, images, and oral presentations. Assess your work and the work of your peers. Reflect on your own processes and performance.
  
• Rhetoric: Analyze the ways in which you and other communicators use persuasion. Think about and use context, audience, purpose, argument, genre, organization, design, visuals, and conventions.
  
• Process: Apply processes (read, invent, plan, draft, design, rehearse, revise, publish, present, and critique).
  
• Digital Media: Produce written, oral, and visual artifacts.
  

Course Outline
Week One: Establishing Concepts, Practices, and Learning Goals
Assignments: Self- Assessment Surveys & Personal Benchmark Statement

Weeks Two & Three: Written Communication Major Assignment – Personal Philosophy Essay
Weeks Four & Five: Visual Communication 
Major Assignment – Personal Philosophy Visual 
 
Weeks Six & Seven:  Oral 
Major Assignment – Personal Philosophy Recorded Presentation 

Week Eight: Reflection 
Assignment – Re-visit the Self-Assessment Surveys and Personal Benchmark Statement