If you complete this course and do well, you will be able to:

• use multiple composing processes to conceptualize, develop, and finalize projects. Composing processes are seldom linear and are also flexible. Successful writers can adapt their composing processes to different genres, contexts, and occasions.
• analyze writing, reading, and speaking occasions and then make strategic choices to negotiate the rhetorical situation. Rhetorical knowledge includes the ability to demonstrate command of purpose, audience, and context.
• engage texts to identify main ideas and supporting evidence, to discern surface-level meaning, and to make logical inferences. Critical thinking refers to the ability to investigate ideas and solve problems through analyzing, interpreting and evaluating information, situations, and texts.
• ask questions, developing an understanding of documentation, composing texts grounded in evidence, using a variety of print and digital resources, and producing print and/or digital texts.
• follow formal rules and informal guidelines that define genres; the rules govern such things as mechanics, usage, spelling, and citation practices. College-level writing often demands adherence to conventions of academic discourse communities. These communities shape readers' and writers' perceptions of correctness or appropriateness.

Major Topics include the following:

• Writing Processes
• Rhetorical Knowledge
• Active Reading and Critical Thinking
• Inquiry and Information Literacy in a Digital Age
• Knowledge of Discourse Conventions