WRITTEN COMMUNICATION

1. Choose, adapt, and restrict the focus of a topic to clarify it according to its purpose and goals.
2.  Formulate a central idea statement appropriate for the purpose and goals of the speech or text.
3.  Cite a variety of credible sources, when appropriate, in the speech or text to support one’s contentions with relevant and adequate evidence
4. Adapt and structure messages and their delivery or presentation to the audience, situation, purpose, and occasion.
5. Use principles designed to influence attitudes, beliefs, and actions.
6. Explain what constitutes plagiarism and use the work of others appropriately
7. Make effective use of peer critique and other feedback in revision and/or future work.
8. Follow standard practices in sentence structure, usage, vocabulary, and word choice.
9. Identify features of texts that distinguish genres and use them appropriately in written products.
10. Demonstrate an understanding of the rationale for multiple documentation formats and use them appropriately.
11. Demonstrate an understanding of the multiple uses of writing, including “writing to learn” across disciplines.
12. Demonstrate facility with the various ways technology impacts writing.
 

AS A READER OR LISTENER 

13. Identify the writer or speaker’s central purpose, ideas, and goals.
14. Discriminate between statements of fact and opinion.
15. Discriminate between emotional and logical arguments.
16. Analyze information and arguments in order to draw conclusions.
17. Analyze critically coherence, structure, voice, and style in a written or oral text.
18. Employ the active response strategies of questioning and paraphrasing in response to a message.  
19. Identify persuasive strategies.
20. Critique meaningfully the written or oral work of peers.

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