Rhetorical Knowledge

Gain experience reading and composing in several genres to understand how genre conventions shape and are shaped by readers’ and writers’ practices and purposes

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Develop facility in responding to a variety of situations and contexts calling for purposeful shifts in voice, tone, level of formality, design, medium, and/or structure

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Critical Thinking, Reading, and Composing  

Use composing and reading for inquiry, learning, critical thinking, and communicating in various rhetorical contexts

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Locate and evaluate (for credibility, sufficiency, accuracy, timeliness, bias and so on) primary and secondary research materials, including journal articles and essays, books, scholarly and professionally established and maintained databases or archives, and informal electronic networks and internet sources

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Use strategies—such as interpretation, synthesis, response, critique, and design/redesign—to compose texts that integrate the writer's ideas with those from appropriate sources

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Processes

Develop a writing project through multiple drafts

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Develop flexible strategies for reading, drafting, reviewing, collaborating, revising, rewriting, rereading, and editing

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Learn to give and to act on productive feedback to works in progress

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Knowledge of Conventions

Develop knowledge of linguistic structures, including grammar, punctuation, and spelling, through practice in composing and revising

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Understand why genre conventions for structure, paragraphing, tone, and mechanics vary

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Practice applying citation conventions systematically in their own work

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