Identify and apply the core concepts of an explicit argument: claims and audience-based reasons, evidence, assumptions/warrants, credibility, conditions of rebuttal, as well as ethos, pathos, and logos.

Introductory essay

• Adopt effective process writing strategies, including invention, drafting, analyzing their own drafts and those of others, revising, and editing.

• Construct an argumentative claim and develop and adequately support audience-based reasons.

• Demonstrate ability to respond thoughtfully to peers’ drafts.

• Identify and apply the core concepts of an explicit argument: claims and audience-based reasons, evidence, assumptions/warrants, credibility, conditions of rebuttal, as well as ethos, pathos, and logos.

• Anticipate and rebut counterarguments to their claims, reasons, warrants, or use of evidence.

• Locate and evaluate appropriate outside research sources and effectively integrate and cite them in their arguments.

• Analyze specific audiences.

• Produce a broad range of arguments for various contexts and audiences: evaluations, proposals, letters to the editor, etc.