ENGL 307 Course Goals

1. Instructor's Goals

1.1. Critically use key rhetorical concepts through analyzing and composing a multitude of business and professional texts and genres responding to a variety of cultural situations and global audiences. (Rhetoric)

1.2. Critique and use flexible strategies for reading, drafting, reviewing, collaborating, revising, rewriting, rereading, and editing using a variety of technologies. (Process)

1.3. Identify need for and then manage, analyze, synthesize, and implement multiple streams of simultaneous information through various technological and document design processes. (Information Literacy & Management)

1.4. Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multimedia business and professional texts. (Multimodal)

1.5. Develop intentional cross-cultural connections and relationships with others to participate in the collaborative and social aspects of business and professional writing processes, including giving and responding to productive feedback and working in teams. (Collaborative)

1.6. Reflect on the development of composing practices and how those practices influence their work. (Reflect/Transfer)

1.7. Explain why genre conventions for structure, paragraphing, tone, and mechanics vary and extrapolate common formats and/or design features for different kinds of business and professional texts. (Genre)

1.8. Classify and attend to the ethical responsibilities required by complex business and professional contexts, genres, and communication environments. (Ethics)

2. Bryan's Goals

2.1. Improve my workplace communication skills

2.2. Learn to write business letters, reports, and proposals

2.3. Improve my ability to work with others to accomplish projects

2.4. Improve my ability to critique others work and provide meaningful feedback

2.5. Understand the appropriate use of different writing mechanics and presentation designs to better communicate to my specific audience

2.6. Widen my knowledge/skill at using different technologies for creating presentations and general communication