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
Workshopping and workshop sheets
Sample materials grouped by instructor
Many teachers of the course feel strongly that students need a guided collaborative writing experience in this upper-division writing course. Variations have included some collaborative analytic work for the first chunk of the semester and full-scale collaborative projects on an original argument at the end of the semester. More details of these collaborative projects are collected under the "Writing Assignment Sheets" link.
Similarly, many teachers have added analysis of or original visual arguments into their syllabi. The jury is still out on whether the original visual arguments are well suited to our goals for this course. But analysis of visual arguments has been useful for extending students' critical thinking. Again, please find specific assignments under the "Writing Assignment Sheets" link.
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