Gain experience reading and composing in several genres to understand how genre conventions shape and are shaped by readers’ and writers’ practices and purposes

RHET KN 1.3

Depth 1

Develop facility in responding to a variety of situations and contexts calling for purposeful shifts in voice, tone, level of formality, design, medium, and/or structure

RHET KN 1.4

Depth 1

Understand and use a variety of technologies to address a range of audiences

RHET KN 1.5

Depth 1

Match the capacities of different environments (e.g., print and electronic) to varying rhetorical situations

CT 2.1

Depth 1

Use composing and reading for inquiry, learning, critical thinking, and communicating in various rhetorical contexts

CT 2.2

Depth 1

Read a diverse range of texts, attending especially to relationships between assertion and evidence, to patterns of organization, to the interplay between verbal and nonverbal elements, and to how these features function for different audiences and situations

CT 2.3

Depth 1

Locate and evaluate (for credibility, sufficiency, accuracy, timeliness, bias and so on) primary and secondary research materials, including journal articles and essays, books, scholarly and professionally established and maintained databases or archives, and informal electronic networks and internet sources

CT 2.4

Depth 1

Use strategies—such as interpretation, synthesis, response, critique, and design/redesign—to compose texts that integrate the writer's ideas with those from appropriate sources

Process 3.1

Depth 1

Develop a writing project through multiple drafts

Process 3.2

Depth 1

Develop flexible strategies for reading, drafting, reviewing, collaborating, revising, rewriting, rereading, and editing

Process 3.3

Depth 1

Use composing processes and tools as a means to discover and reconsider ideas

Process 3.4

Depth 1

Experience the collaborative and social aspects of writing processes