● Explore and analyze, in writing and reading, a variety of genres and rhetorical situations.

● Develop strategies for reading, drafting, collaborating, revising, and editing.

● Recognize and practice key rhetorical terms and strategies when engaged in writing situations.

● Engage in the collaborative and social aspects of writing processes.

● Understand and use print and digital technologies to address a range of audiences.

● Locate research sources (including academic journal articles, magazine, and newspaper articles) in the library’s databases or archives and on the Internet and evaluate them for credibility, accuracy, timeliness, and bias.

● Compose texts that integrate your stance with appropriate sources using strategies such as summary, critical analysis, interpretation, synthesis, and argumentation.

● Practice systematic application of citation conventions.