Course Learning Goals: Community Writing

Before posting my final reflection and a link to my course website, I wanted to leave all of you with a brief blog post highlighting the course learning goals for Community Writing. I hope by reviewing the overview of the course along with the course goals, you will be able to not only better understand my course but better evaluate it's strength and weaknesses as well.

Overview

This course asks you to write about a community from which you belong. Every assignment will ask you to critically question aspects of this community as well as your involvement with that community. Further, as an online course, you will be sharing your understandings about this community on our class blog. As such, while this course asks you to critically think and write, it also asks that you develop a broader understanding of what it means to write. Specifically, while your writing posted to a blog, your writing is visible to the global online world. As such, your thoughts and writing have the opportunity to reach an audience well beyond our class. Therefore, this course attempts to create not only better writers for the classroom but better writers for the world. 

Goals

As a tier-one writing course, all of our goals will align with MSU’s tier-one writing goals. Additionally, we will strive as a class to achieve the following goals:

·      To develop, individually and as a class, a definition of the term “community”

·      To develop a broader understanding of what writing does and can do

·      To write for a global audience

·      To critically think, question and write about communities

·      To write with purpose and use rhetorical skills to convey your thoughts with a global audience