Session Results: Conventions (Irvin Peckham)

Group: Condon & Peckham: I wish I had gotten everyone's names.

Outcomes-all set as outcomes for a firstyear program, regardless of the number of semesters in the program.

• Genre Knowledge
• Students should know that different genres are appropriate to different kinds of rhetorical situations; they should have some sense of what genres are.
• In argumentative genres: Students should should be able to assert and defend an argument that fits the rhetorical situation giving rise to the text.
• [The level of generalization in this outcome invites more outcomes at this level for argumentative genres and for other supra-genres.]
• Research
• Students should be able to locate, analyze, and evaluate appropriate information that will help them fulfill the needs of the particular writing task. These sources will be both primary (interviews, surveys, observations) and secondary (library, newspapers, internet, web).
• Students should be able to integrate the information with appropriate logic and style into their texts.
• Process
• Students should be able to control different writing processes that are appropriate to the writing tasks.
• Conventions
• Students should be able to use discourse conventions appropriate to the genre, audience, and purpose of the text (this is really . . . conventions that fit the exigence of the rhetorical situation).
• Postmodern considerations
• Students should understand the social and political implications of writing in a literate culture.

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