Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Practice analytical reading strategies and hone the ability to summarize, paraphrase, draw evidence from, synthesize, and respond to the scholarship of others through the use of writing to clarify and improve your understanding of issues and texts. 

• Practice critical questioning in reading and writing to develop deep academic understanding of topics.

• Develop an understanding of the rhetorical purposes of written texts in the academic community and formulate rhetorical writing for academic purposes.

• Understand the relationship between discourse structure on the questions at issue in a piece of writing and to select appropriate structures at sentence and discourse levels.

• Respond and reflect in writing to the thinking of others and to explore your own thinking.

• Learn to critically evaluate their own and others’ work and to collaborate effectively with other writers throughout the writing process. 

• Learn to find and evaluate print and electronic source materials appropriate for reliability and use in academic research projects. 

• Practice and refine technical skills in areas such as grammar, mechanics, and the appropriate documentation of source materials.

• Practice and refine analytical skills in media literacy.

• Monitor your writing for conventions in grammar, usage, and style, as well as, overall cohesiveness appropriate to each writing situation.

• Practice and refine listening and presentation skills for optimizing content learning in the academic setting.

• Use textual materials as a framework for understanding and writing about other texts, data, or experiences.

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