Learning Objective #1: Examine how attitudes toward linguistic standards empower and oppress language users.
My paraphrase: Explore how views on language standards can affect speakers positively and negatively.
Evidence of learning: In “Mother’s Tongue”, by Amy Tan, we can see how the way Amy Tan and her mother speak English affects the way people treat them.
My score 0-5: 5
https://www.umsl.edu/~alexanderjm/Mother%20Tongue%20by%20Tan.pdf
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Learning Objective #2: Explore and analyze, in writing and reading, a variety of genres and rhetorical situations.
My paraphrase: Exploring how the genre or other situations affects how the author communicates based on the audience.
Evidence of learning: Translation 1, where I specifically used a poem to explain to my audience the meaning of my LLN essay. Also “3 Ways to Speak English’’, by Jamila Lyiscott, shows how she speaks in a way to convey her ideas to her audience.
My score 0-5: 5
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Learning Objective #3: Develop strategies for reading, drafting, collaborating, revising, and editing.
My paraphrase: Being able to write our essays with different strategies.
Evidence of learning: The synthesis essay or LLN essay
My score 0-5: 5
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Learning Objective #4: Recognize and practice key rhetorical terms and strategies when engaged in writing situations.
My paraphrase: Writing essays where we need to write for an audience.
Evidence of learning: The LLN essay where I wrote informally to convey my ideas.
My score 0-5: 5
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Learning Objective #5: Understand and use print and digital technologies to address a range of audiences.
My paraphrase: Creating media to tell our story in a new way.
Evidence of learning: Translation 2 uses media to convey our message of the synthesis essay in a new way.
My score 0-5: 5
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Learning Objective #6: Locate research sources (including academic journal articles, magazine and newspaper articles) in the library’s databases or archives and on the Internet and evaluate those sources for credibility, accuracy, timeliness, and bias.
My paraphrase: Using scholarly or the CCNY library database to find sources.
Evidence of learning: Synthesis essay
My score 0-5: 5
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Learning Objective #7: Compose texts that integrate a stance with appropriate sources, using strategies such as summary, analysis, synthesis, and argument.
My paraphrase: Connecting readings by synthesizing.
Evidence of learning: Synthesis essay
My score 0-5: 5
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Learning Objective #8: Practice citing sources accurately and consistently.
My paraphrase: Anytime we quoted in our papers.
Evidence of learning: Synthesis essay or LLN essay
My score 0-5: 5
