CO300 as a University Core Course
(Possible) Differences between COCC150 and CO300
Portfolio Grading as an Option
Audience awareness and rhetorical contexts
Mid-course, group, and supplemental evaluations
More detailed explanation of Rogerian argument and Toulmin analysis
Portfolio explanations, checklists, and postscripts
Presenting evidence and organizing arguments/counter-arguments
Course Objectives
Back to COCC300 as a University Core Course
- To give students additional critical reading skills beyond the freshman composition level
- To consider elements of argumentation in detail beyond that of freshman composition
- To focus on argumentative strategies, patterns, and approaches as readers and writers
- To emphasize work in the library and review of library resources throughout the course
- clearly focus an argument
- meet audience needs
- present appropriate and adequate support
- consider and, where appropriate, refute opposition arguments
- organize arguments logically and coherently
- adapt appropriate structure for arguments
- demonstrate research and documentation skills
- adapt style for the rhetorical context
- polish final papers for professional presentation