Outcomes
In order to successfully complete this course, the student will:
1. Compose essays using appropriate technologies.
2. Integrate information from a variety of sources and cultures in order to support a persuasive argument.
3. Explain the importance of purpose, audience, and style as components of effective communication.
4. Apply a range of critical reading approaches to read and respond to college-level texts.
5. Implement multiple drafts, revision, computer technology, peer and instructor comments, and collaboration in written communication.
6. Apply the accepted conventions of spelling, grammar, structure, and punctuation for Standard English.
7. Discuss similarities and differences in purposes and strategies of written, oral and digital communication.
8. Create no fewer than 20 double-spaced pages, comprising no less than three and no more than five essays, one of which shall be a 5 to 10-page research paper.