| 1. Listening and
reading to analyze and evaluate experiences, ideas, information,
and issues requires using evaluative criteria from a variety
of perspectives and recognizing the difference in evaluations
based on different sets of criteria.
Students:
- analyze, interpret, and evaluate Ideas,
information, organization, and language of a wide range
of general and technical texts and presentations across
subject areas, including technical manuals, professional
journals, political speeches, and literary criticism
- evaluate the quality of the texts
and presentations from a variety of critical perspectives
within the field of study (e.g., using both Poe's elements
of a short story and the elements of "naturalist fiction"
to evaluate a modern story)
- make precise determinations about
the perspective of a particular writer or speaker by recognizing
the relative weight they place on particular arguments and
criteria (E.g., one critic condemns a biography as too long
and rambling another praises It for Its accuracy and never
mentions its length)
- evaluate and compare their own and
others' work with regard to different criteria and recognize
the change in evaluations when different criteria are considered
to be more Important.
This is evident, for example when students:
- compare the majority decision and
the dissenting opinions on a Supreme Court case
- listen to speeches of two political
candidates and compare their stands on several major issues
- read the writing of several critics
on the same author and determine what literary criteria
each used in evaluating the author and how that accounts
for different judgments
- read a current article on a scientific
issue, such as the greenhouse effect, and compare it to
an earlier explanation of the same issue.
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2. Speaking and
writing for critical analysis and evaluation requires presenting
opinions and judgments on experiences, ideas, information, and
issues clearly, logically, and persuasively with reference to
specific criteria on which the opinion or judgment is based.
Students:
- present orally and In writing well
developed analyses of issues, ideas, and texts, explaining
the rationale for their positions and analyzing their positions
from a variety of perspectives in such forms as formal speeches,
debates, thesis/support papers, literary critiques, and
issues analyses
- make effective use of details, evidence,
and arguments and of presentational strategies to Influence
an audience to adopt their position
- monitor and adjust their own oral
and written presentations to have the greatest influence
on a particular audience
- use standard English a broad and precise
vocabulary and the conventions of formal oratory and debate.
This is evident, for example, when students:
- write two different analyses of a
Supreme Court decision from the perspectives of a "strict-constructionist""
and a judicial activist
- write a review of a technical manual
from the perspective of current industry standards
- deliver a "campaign" speech using
a variety of persuasive strategies to influence an audience
- write an essay comparing critiques
from two different centuries of a Shakespearean play.
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