Dr. Dean Taciuch
George Mason University

Fall 2019

English 302: N22 & N23

As a Mason Impact course, ENGH 302 teaches students to understand knowledge creation and to investigate a meaningful question through the development of an inquiry-based research project that evaluates, synthesizes, and incorporates multiple perspectives.

Students as Scholars

This course participates in the Students as Scholars (SaS) program, a university-wide initiative that encourages undergraduate students to engage in scholarly research.  Across campus, students now have increased opportunities to work with faculty on original scholarship, research, and creative activities, through their individual departments and the OSCAR office (http://oscar.gmu.edu).

At the end of the course, the Office of Institutional Assessment and the Composition Program will collect random samples of students' final research projects to assess the effectiveness of the Students as Scholars Program. This assessment has no bearing on your grade in the course.

Below are course goals and learning outcomes for the composition program and the SaS initiative.

ENGH 302 Learning Goals

• use writing as a tool for exploration and reflection in addressing advanced problems, as well as for exposition and persuasion
  
  
• employ strategies for writing as a recursive process of inventing, investigating, shaping, drafting, revising, and editing to meet a range of advanced academic and professional expectations
  
  
• identify, evaluate, and use research sources
  
  
• employ a range of appropriate technologies to support researching, reading, writing, and thinking
  
  
• apply critical reading strategies that are appropriate to advanced reading in your academic discipline and in possible future workplaces
  
  
• recognize how knowledge is constructed in your academic discipline and possible future workplaces
  
  
• analyze rhetorical situations – audience, purpose, and context – of texts produced in your academic disciplines and possible future workplaces
  
  
• produce writing that is appropriate for a range of rhetorical situations within your academic disciplines and possible future workplaces

Students as Scholars Learning Outcomes

• CORE: Articulate and refine a question, problem, or challenge.
  
  
• ETHICAL: Identify relevant ethical issues and follow ethical principles.
  
  
• DISCOVERY: Distinguish between personal beliefs and evidence.
  
  
• METHOD: Gather and evaluate evidence appropriate to the inquiry.
  
  
• METHOD:  Appropriately analyze scholarly evidence.
  
  
• CONTEXT: Explain how knowledge is situated and shared in relevant scholarly contexts.