Contact
Kyle McIntosh
Associate Professor and Director of Academic Writing
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Phone: (813) 257-3017
Location: Department of English andÌýWriting, Plant Hall, Room 450AÌý
Outcomes and Goals
AWR 101
- Course Description
- Learning Outcomes
- Course Goals
AWR 101Ìýis a critical reading, writing, and information literacy course that, in small classes of around 22 students, introduces students to the ways that the University of Tampa is linked to a broader network of global concerns and contexts. Students read a number of texts chosen by their instructor, and they analyze, discuss, and respond in writing to those texts as a means of evaluating elements of form and content. Equally important, they study the relation between texts and contexts that reveals students’ place in an increasingly globalized environment. Lastly, students learn how to properly find, evaluate, and ethically cite research sources through an academic library.
- Identify the elements that make up a text, including its audience, purpose, genre and context.
- Identify an argument and the strategies used to create it.
- Demonstrate the ability to analyze written, oral or visual forms of communication.
- Demonstrate that they can make decisions about content, form and diction relating to a given writing situation.
- Document sources in an appropriate bibliographic style
Goal 2: Students will demonstrate effective oral and written communication by analyzing issues within their local community and the world
- Objective 2.2 Students will write effective documents
- Objective 2.3 Students will demonstrate effective critical reading strategies
Goal 3: Students will evaluate information using appropriate analytical and technological tools to solve relevant problems within their local and global communities
- Objective 3.4 Students will analyze and evaluate complex issues through rhetoric, logic, and argument
Outcomes and Goals
AWR 201
- Course Description
- Learning Outcomes
- Course Goals
AWR 201Ìýbuilds upon the skills and concepts learned in AWR 101 by inviting students to examine their relation to the community and the world. It teaches the conventions and expectations of academic research writing, guiding students through their own extended research project. The course teaches project discovery, annotation of source materials, processes of drafting and revision, delivery of a polished final product that adheres to the standards of citation style, and conversion of the essay into a clear oral presentation for an audience of peers.
- Recognize and appropriately define a research topic related to the local and the global.
- Identify, locate, and distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate academic sources.
- Document sources in an appropriate bibliographic style.
- Select and defend an extended research project.
- Communicate research in multiple modes, written, oral and multimedia
Goal 1: Students will become engaged, responsible citizens of their local community and the world
- Objective 1.1 Students will recognize the importance of their role within a diverse global community
Goal 2: Students will demonstrate effective oral and written communication by analyzing issues within their local community and the world
- Objective 2.1 Students will prepare and deliver effective oral presentations
- Objective 2.2 Students will write effective documents
- Objective 2.3 Students will demonstrate effective critical reading strategies
Goal 3: Students will evaluate information using appropriate analytical and technological tools to solve relevant problems within their local and global communities
- Objective 3.3 Students will employ appropriate technology to solve problems
- Objective 3.4 Students will analyze and evaluate complex issues through rhetoric, logic, and argument
