"By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it."
Gloria Anzaldua
Two Semester Course Sequence
Buffalo State University’s College Writing Program offers a two-course writing sequence. Our recently revised curriculum intentionally scaffolds learning outcomes and content across our courses. Our courses aim to aid our students’ cognitive development; encourage rhetorical transfer of writing skills across courses at Buffalo State and in their public and professional lives; and provide a curriculum relevant for and engaging to our current first year students and their needs. We recognize that successful texts can only be achieved through the individualized recursive processes of designing, drafting, and revision, and a primary goal is to ensure that all students have a tool kit of strategies that they are able to implement in order to meet specific composing goals in collegiate, professional, and public contexts.
Semester 1
COLLEGE WRITING I
Course focusing on rhetorical writing and composition across audiences and genres. Written and multimodal projects emphasize students’ development of critical reading and thinking; informational literacy; knowledge of conventions; and recursive writing processes.
CWP 101 Learning Outcomes
- apply rhetorical practices when composing oral, written, and multimodal texts
- demonstrate rhetorical knowledge of contexts, purposes, and audiences when composing texts
- practice a range of recursive, collaborative, and reflective process-based approaches when drafting texts
- summarize ideas, information, and situations when reading and composing texts
- distinguish appropriate and ethical information literacy skills when citing sources
- describe conventions across genres and rhetorical situations when reading and composing texts
Semester 2
COLLEGE WRITING II
Course focusing on researched writing and composition across academic communities and scholarly situations. Written and multimodal projects continue to develop students’ rhetorical use of critical reading and thinking; informational literacy; knowledge of conventions; and recursive writing processes.
CWP 102 Learning Outcomes:
- apply rhetorical practices when composing written, oral, and multimodal texts
- analyze rhetorical knowledge of contexts, purposes, and audiences when composing texts
- choose their own recursive, collaborative, and reflective process-based approaches when drafting texts
- examine ideas, information, and situations when reading and composing texts
- choose appropriate and ethical information literacy skills when citing sources
- select conventions across genres and rhetorical situations when composing texts