Course Goals
Course Goals:
Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:
- Use the writing process (invention, drafting, revision, and editing) to produce coherent and well-developed essays that support an expressed or implied controlling idea. These essays should have a targeted audience and a designated rhetorical purpose.
- Use writing as a process of discovery, promoting habits of critical thinking.
- Apply the rhetorical techniques of interpretation, analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and argumentation to various kinds of texts.
- Locate, use, and document information from authoritative sources to fulfill research objectives.
- Compose according to standardized academic conventions of grammar, punctuation, mechanics, spelling, diction, and sentence structure. Included here are the conventions of tone, point of view, and style appropriate to a specific rhetorical context.