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Rhetorical Knowledge
- Identify, articulate, and focus on a defined purpose
- Respond to the need of the appropriate audience
- Respond appropriately to different rhetorical situations
- Use conventions of format and structure appropriate to the rhetorical situation
- Adopt appropriate voice, tone, and level of formality
- Understand how each genre helps to shape writing and how readers respond to it
- Write in multiple genres
- Understand the role of a variety of technologies/media in accessing, retrieving, managing, and communicating information
- Use appropriate technologies to organize, present, and communicate information to address a range of audiences, purposes, and genres
Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing
- Use information, writing, and reading for inquiry, learning, thinking, and communicating
- Integrate previously held beliefs, assumptions, and knowledge with new information and the ideas of others to accomplish a specific purpose within a context
Processes
- Be aware that it usually takes multiple drafts to create and complete a successful text
- Develop flexible strategies for generating, revising, editing, and proof-reading
- Understand the collaborative and social aspects of research and writing processes
- Use appropriate technologies to manage data and information collected or generated for future use
Knowledge of Conventions:
- Learn common formats for different genres
- Develop knowledge of genre conventions ranging from structure and paragraphing to tone and mechanics
- Understand and apply legal and ethical uses of information and technology including copyright and intellectual property
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