Self-Assessment – Fahin Khandaker's portfolio

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Course Learning Outcome

Your Paraphrase

Level of Learning*

Example of How you Worked to Achieve it

1

Examine how attitudes towards linguistic standards empower and oppress language users.

How people use and speak “standard” versions of their language to help or hurt others.

5

By reading and listening to Amy Tan’s Mother Tongue and Safwat Saleem’s Ted Talk.

2

Explore and analyze, in writing and reading, a variety of genres and rhetorical situations.

Reading stories with different ethnic backgrounds and analysing them.

5

Reading and analysing the previously mentioned stories and more, like June Jordan’s Nobody Mean More to Me Than You and Willie Jordan.

3

Develop strategies for reading, drafting, collaborating, revising, and editing.

Creating an approach to writing and revising.

5

Using other people’s feedback, 1-on-1 with the instructor, and taking inspiration from others.

4

Recognize and practice key rhetorical terms and strategies when engaged in writing situations.

Strategies used by authors and learning that.

5

Completing and discussing the Rhetorical Worksheet homeworks.

5

Understand and use print and digital technologies to address a range of audiences.

Using video or pictures to convey certain ideas or emotions.

3

Working on both Translation assignments and Synthesis Essay.

6

Locate research sources (including academic journal articles, magazine and newspaper articles) in the library’s databases or archives and on the Internet and evaluate them for credibility, accuracy, timeliness, and bias.

Getting comfortable with searching for sources in many ways and places.

5

Researching sources for Synthesis Essay.

7

Compose texts that integrate a stance with appropriate sources, using strategies such as summary, analysis, synthesis, and argumentation.

Creating a thesis, and then making a well analyzed and researched essay around that.

4

By working on the LLN Essay, the Synthesis Essay, and Translation #2.

8

Practice systematic application of citation conventions.

Citing all sources used in an essay.

5

By using MLA formatting and quoting.