If you do well in this course, you will be able to accomplish:

Goal 1: Advanced Composition

• Identify topics suitable for advanced research and writing
• Demonstrate effective outline and structure technique
• Develop a critical topic in length and complexity
• Demonstrate a critical awareness of audience and purpose
• Appropriately control paragraphs
• Appropriately apply basic rules of grammar and mechanics in writing
• Demonstrate increased control of language and individual style and voice

Goal 2: Research Writing

• Demonstrate effective research strategies and techniques
• Evaluate sources for authority and credibility
• Select appropriate evidence in support of writing
• Integrate source material effectively and ethically into writing

Goal 3: Documentation

• Demonstrate mastery of appropriate style of documentation

Goal 4: Writing for Disciplines

• Comprehend the role and function of discourse communities in modern society
• Identify the particular discourse communities they seek to join
• Identify rhetorical conventions and expectations in particular discourse communities
• Write prose that conforms to the conventions of particular discourse communities