Learning Outcomes

• Explain what they have learned from being a novice in new writing situations, and describe how these experiences, which might include failure, contribute to their willingness to accept new challenges as a writer.

• Identify how their views of writing have changed as a result of the work they have done in the course.

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Habits of Mind

• Flexibility is fostered when writers are encouraged to approach writing assignments in multiple ways, depending on the task and the writer’s purpose and audience

• Metacognition is fostered when writers are encouraged to connect choices they have made in texts to audiences and purposes for which texts are intended.

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Key Terms

• Rhetorical Situation: audience, purpose, context, exigency

• Composing Processes: planning, researching, drafting, sharing and responding, revising, editing, publishing, reflecting