Rhetorical Knowledge

• Identify, articulate, and focus on a defined purpose
• Respond to the need of the appropriate audience
• Respond appropriately to different rhetorical situations
• Understand the role of a variety of technologies/media in accessing, retrieving, managing, and communicating information

Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing

• Use information, writing, and reading for inquiry, learning, thinking, and communicating
• Understand the relationships among language, knowledge, and power including social, cultural, historical, and economic issues related to information, writing, and technology
• Integrate previously held beliefs, assumptions, and knowledge with new information and the ideas of others to accomplish a specific purpose within a context

Processes

• Understand the collaborative and social aspects of research and writing processes

Knowledge of Conventions:

• Learn and apply appropriate standards, laws, policies, and accepted practices for the use of a variety of technologies
• Apply appropriate means of documenting their work
• Understand and apply legal and ethical uses of information and technology including copyright and intellectual property