Learning Outcomes / Course Goals for Expos 2

• Be able to identify and evaluate components of an explicit argument
  • Claims and audience-based reasons
    
  • Evidence
    
  • Underlying assumptions (warrants)
    
  • Opposing Views
    
• Be able to construct an explicit argument using audience-based reasoning
  
• Be able to select, integrate, and explain evidence for an explicit argument
  
• Be able to locate, select, summarize, and integrate published sources into an explicit argument
  
• Be able to recognize how argument is a “social phenomenon” (Ramage and Bean, 22)