Students will be able to write effectively.

1. Demonstrate effective rhetorical strategies appropriate to the purpose, audience, context, and genre, including strategies related to content, structure, voice, tone, and style.

2. Use writing for inquiry, learning, and thinking; understand a writing assignment as a series of tasks (including finding, evaluating, analyzing, and synthesizing appropriate primary and secondary sources); be able to integrate their own ideas with those of others; and understand the relationships among language, knowledge, and power.

3. Be aware that it usually takes multiple drafts to create and complete a successful text; develop flexible strategies for generating, revising, editing, and proofreading; be able to critique their own and others’ work; and understand the collaborative and social aspects of writing processes and be able to balance the advantages of relying on others with the responsibility of doing their own part.

4. Demonstrate knowledge of genre conventions, including conventions related to content, format, structure, paragraphing, tone, style, and documentation, as well as knowledge of the conventions of Standard Written English.

5. Conduct web‐based research; employ research strategies using electronic data bases; use the computer for the various stages in writing (including drafting, revising, responding and editing); and understand how rhetorical strategies used in writing traditional texts differ from those used in composing online genres such as hyper‐text, electronic communication, and graphics.