Research paper

Goals and Outcomes for Portfolio Assessment in English 102

In your RESEARCH WRITING, you will: 1. Present a narrowed down inquiry-based research question that…

a. is based on a relevant problem or controversy that is important to yourself and others and requires academic research to help figure out.

b. is open-ended and will allow you to consider multiple perspectives across various types of sources. c. is maintained and developed from paragraph to paragraph. 
 d. involves the process of asking further questions to help answer. e. responds ethically to the concerns and interests of the project’s audiences and stakeholders. 2. Critically work with various types of sources by ... a. using sources to provide various perspectives in your writing in order to build knowledge and insight for your audiences on your main research question. b. interpreting and analyzing the information and ideas taken from your sources by explaining how and why these help to answer your main research question. 


c. using sources to help support other sources by explaining how and why idea(s) from one source help you to figure out what is happening in another source.

d. discussing your sources’ relationships to one another, your own ideas, the stakeholders involved and the broader discussion. 3. Follow writing conventions appropriate to your rhetorical situation by ...

a. creating coherence and clarity for your intended audience(s) through arrangement and design. b. providing relevant context such as background information, 
examples, and definitions. 
 c. integrating the ideas of others accurately and fairly through summary, paraphrase, and quotation. 
 d. documenting all sources with in-text citations and a bibliography 
 following current MLA 
guidelines. 
 e. meeting expectations for grammar and mechanics. 


In your REFLECTIVE PROJECT, you will: 1. Present reflective writing that…

a. discusses how and why your research writing developed after considering your audiences, stakeholders, inquiry, and exigency. 


b. discusses how and why your rhetorical situation (purpose, audiences, context) affected the choices you made in your research writing. 
 c. discusses how and why your understanding of academic writing and research influenced your research writing.

d. explains how and why sources were chosen and used in your research writing.