Formulate and articulate a stance through and in your writing.

Mastering of this Course Learning Outcome really displays one’s expertise as a writer. This is where thoughtfulness, creativeness, cunning, strength, and stratagem come in hand. You have a point to make. Make it clear, and make it solid.

If you can learn to master the art of formulating and articulating a stance through your writing, you have a very powerful tool (or weapon) at your disposal. Pay attention to this Course Learning Outcome.

We have practiced this Course Learning Outcome more than any other this semester. In each and every assignment, we have had to articulate something to our reader. This varied from a technical concept, to a point of view, and to an idea.

In the Memo assignment, my stance was that it is in the best interest of the City College of New York (CCNY) and its students to fix the issue with late schedule adjustments.

I made this clear to students by pointing out that a class can be cancelled within a week or less of the semester beginning, and that it can happen to anyone. This can result in ones financial assistance being thrown in limbo, inconvenient schedule, or inability to take a specific class that semester.

To formulate that point, I gave an example displaying how that very thing happened to me.

I made my point to the administration of CCNY by showing how (I am sure they are already well aware) the tuitions of increasingly competitive online colleges has dropped significantly, and brick and mortar institutions will be hit hard in the future unless they can stay competitive. I drove this argument home by claiming that a brick and mortar institution will not survive if it continues to behave like full enrollment is a guarantee. Adapt or die.

With this argument, the two parties most involved with scheduling have an incentive to drive a change in the scheduling process. This is how I formulated my arguement.

You must figure out the needs of your audience, and manipulate those needs. This Course Learning Outcome is heavily tied to reading your audience.