1.) Rhetorical knowledge is a very important skill for nearly everyone to have.

If your job has a position in it where you need to speak or write to an

audience then it will be needed. Rhetorical knowledge is the ability to
interpret your audience, purpose, and contexts and proceed with a work of
text that conforms to those three constraints.
I believe that this skill would be very important to the field that I plan to
pursue after college. Understanding your audience and purpose is essential to
writing papers or giving talks related to a scientific field. During college my field,
Chemistry, will require me to give presentations on various topics such as: different
synthetic routes to produce chemicals or even what went wrong during an
experiment that I did, and how I plan to fix it. This will continue into graduate
school, which I will hopefully get into, where I will have to assist in teaching various
chemistry related classes. I will have to have a good understanding of my audience,
such as the fact that they will not have as much knowledge as I would at that point
in time, to efficiently do my job as a teaching assistant.

2.) Critical reflection is another topic that is very important to the literacy
process. It can essentially be boiled down to The readers ability to
articulate what and why they are thinking something. There are many
examples of this, such ones are: to explain the choices made in a work of
writing, to contextualize it, and to constructively edit their paper in
response to feedback from their peers.
Critical reflection is another skill that would be helpful in my field of science,
even though I see it as less important than rhetorical knowledge is. One current
example of how it is used would be the fact that I need to reflect upon feedback on
my chemistry lab reports that have been given by my instructors. This ability to
reflect is certainly something that I need to work on, as I am currently not good
enough at incorporating the feedback into later reports. Later on, in my career as a
chemist, I will use writing very often as a means of reflection. I will need to reflect
on chemical reactions that I undertook, and then use that reflection to determine if
there is any part of the reaction that I can modify to improve various things such as
the amount of product recovered or the quality of said product.

3.) Knowledge of conventions is a skill that I see only being mildly useful to
me after college. Knowledge of conventions can be defined as the
knowledge of the various rules of the literary process. This can include
things such as grammar, spelling, citation, punctuation, design, and tone.

It also includes the ability to differentiate between the aspects of the

different genres.
The aspect of this that would relate most to my field would be the knowledge
of the various citation and copyright mechanisms. Citations are important because
if I dont properly cite a source in my thesis at the end of graduate school then I can
get into a lot of trouble. Knowledge of intellectual property is also a very important
aspect of chemistry. If I find a novel route to produce a new chemical then I would
want to patent it as soon as possible. This is such an integral part of chemistry that
it has carved out a spot in the profession of law just for itself. Most people wouldnt
think it, but a good amount of people with PhD in the field of chemistry go on to
work at various law firms in the field of patent law.

4.) Before coming to this course I had a relatively good understanding of

rhetorical knowledge. I had to write various papers during my English
career of high school that required me to understand the audiences that I
was talking to and understand what the purpose of my paper was. The
paper that would be my favorite would be the historical reflection on WW2
that I did in the 11th grade.
During my writing career in college, I have been required to focus a lot
more on my audience. The paper that did this the most would probably
be the readers guide and the readers guide remix. The remix
especially did this because of the fact that I had to take my original
guide and repurpose it for a different audience. I havent been able to
really improve my understanding of the purpose of my writing,
because I think that I have always been relatively good at
understanding that subject. The understanding of the context of my
work is another skill that I havent been able to improve much on
because, much like purpose, I have always been pretty good at
understanding it.

5.) Critical reading is probably the SLO that I came into college with the most
knowledge about. I have always loved to read and have always been
really good at analyzing and interpreting a text. One of my favorite books
that I have to read and then interpret for a class would be A Tale of Two
Cities.
I havent really been able to refine my critical reading skills as much as
I would have liked to in college. I wish we wouldve read at least one
actual book in this UWRT class. I feel as though this class is far too
easy, and this maybe would have put a little more challenge into the
class.

6.) The composing process is a SLO that has not changed very much for me
at all in college. I have had roughly the same process for composing a
work that I had in middle school, and it has served me well ever since. I
normally start with brainstorming either in my head or on a sheet of
paper. This is followed by me applying the ideas that I gathered during my
brainstorming to a rough draft. The part that follows this is really the only
thing that I have gained in this area from UWRT. The next one would be
getting one of my peers to review over my paper. I never used to do this,
but now that I do it increases the quality of my papers. I then make the
necessary changes and submit my final draft. The piece of work that
mostly helped me with this in class would be the literacy memoir. Having
all of the reviews that I did for that really helped the quality of the paper.

Four artifacts: Literacy memoir, readers guide, readers guide remix, various in
class journals
Main SLO would be rhetorical knowledge for all of these