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Introduction

Background on the Course

CO300 as a University Core Course

Short Description of the Course

Course Objectives

General Overview

Alternative Approaches and Assignments

(Possible) Differences between COCC150 and CO300

What CO300 Students Are Like

And You Thought...

Beginning with Critical Reading

Opportunities for Innovation

Portfolio Grading as an Option

Teaching in the computer classroom

Finally. . .

Classroom materials

Audience awareness and rhetorical contexts

Critical thinking and reading

Focusing and narrowing topics

Mid-course, group, and supplemental evaluations

More detailed explanation of Rogerian argument and Toulmin analysis

Policy statements and syllabi

Portfolio explanations, checklists, and postscripts

Presenting evidence and organizing arguments/counter-arguments

Research and documentation

Revision

Writing assignment sheets

Assignments for portfolio 1

Assignments for portfolio 2

Assignments for portfolio 3

Workshopping and workshop sheets

On workshopping generally

Workshop sheets for portfolio 1

Workshop sheets for portfolio 2

Workshop sheets for portfolio 3

Workshop sheets for general purposes

Sample materials grouped by instructor

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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