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
• Use appropriate technologies to organize, present, and communicate information to address a range of audiences, purposes, and genres

Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing

• Integrate previously held beliefs, assumptions, and knowledge with new information and the ideas of others to accomplish a specific purpose within a context

Processes

• Develop research and writing strategies appropriate to the context and situation
• Understand research and writing as an open process that permits writers to use later invention and re-thinking to revise their work
• 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 standard tools for accessing and retrieving information
• Learn and apply appropriate standards, laws, policies, and accepted practices for the use of a variety of technologies
• Develop knowledge of genre conventions ranging from structure and paragraphing to tone and mechanics
• Apply appropriate means of documenting their work
• Control such surface features as syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling