Rhetorical Knowledge:

• Understand the role of a variety of technologies/media in accessing, retrieving, 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
• Recognize, understand, and analyze the context within which language, information, and knowledge are produced, managed, organized, and disseminated
• Integrate previously held beliefs, assumptions, and knowledge with new information and the ideas of others to accomplish a specific purpose within a context

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