Yesika Sorto Andino, Catrisse McDowell, Kristopher Heiser, Christian Chavis

September 19, 2016

Honors UWRT 1103 - Campbell
SLO Translation Assignment
Rhetorical Knowledge:
- Defined as the ability to identity and apply strategies across various texts through the
analysis of genre, audience, purpose, and context
Students should be able to use strategies to address audience, purpose, and context
Students should be able to understand genres and how they shape conventions, through
the analysis of mechanics, structure, and style
Students should be able to develop flexible writing styles
Critical Reading:
- Defined as the ability to analyze, create, and understand ideas, information and texts.
Thinking and reading critically allows you to separate claims from evidence, evaluate
sources and evidence, read between the lines, read across different texts, and identify
connections between the texts.
Students should be able to use reading for learning
Students should be able to give feedback to oneself and others; be able to notice the value
of various writing style choices of others.
Students should be able to locate sources that are primary and secondary through books
and online texts
Students should be able to use different texts, and using these texts to evaluate claims and
organization and how these things connect to the audience and situation
The Writing Process:
- Defined as the way in which writers use multiple strategies,

or writing processes, to
conceptualize, develop, and finalize projects. Writers should be able to enhance and
evolve their own writing processes in order to express ideas on many different
subjects and ideas.
Students should be able to demonstrate flexible strategies for drafting, reviewing,
collaborating, revising, rewriting, rereading, and editing
Students should be able to recognize and employ the social interactions entailed in
writing processes: brainstorming;
giving their responses and opinions on others work.
Students should be able to use their writing process in order to deepen engagement with
source material, their own ideas, and the ideas of others and as a means of strengthening
claims and solidifying logical arguments.
Knowledge of Conventions
- Defined as the regulations of writing, such as spelling and grammar, along with broader
guidelines found in genres; they establish expectations on what a reader should expect in

Yesika Sorto Andino, Catrisse McDowell, Kristopher Heiser, Christian Chavis

September 19, 2016
Honors UWRT 1103 - Campbell
SLO Translation Assignment
the authors writing and direct the authors decisions on which strategies are most
appropriate to employ.
Students should be able to properly cite sources used in the students work to provide
credit for other peoples research and thoughts
Students should be able to investigate why writings of different genres differ in the
choices the author makes
Students should be able to recognize a genre based on its manipulation of structure,
design, tone, format, paragraph structure, and mechanics that are unique to it
Critical Reflection:
- Defined as the writers ability to explain what he/she is thinking and why they think this
way.
Students should be able to demonstrate reflecting in writing by using various strategies
Students should be able to use writing as a way to express what they feel or think
Students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of the purpose, context, and
audience of their own writing; demonstrate knowledge of rules within their writing
Students should be able to exemplify that understanding and thinking about ones own
writing is part of learning and communicating.