Writing Learning Objectives

Upon graduation, student who major ion Writing will be able to:

Write Like Writers

• Recognize and respond to a variety of audiences, contexts, and purposes
• Craft sophisticated print and digital texts in a variety of genres, both creative and professional
• Demonstrate growth as a writer by producing a professional-quality portfolio
• Evaluate the appropriateness of rhetorical choices in own and others’ texts

• Arrange the organization of texts appropriate to the rhetorical situation
• Recognize and self-edit errors in written discourse
• Produce complex texts with correctness in syntax, grammar, usage, punctuation, mechanics, and spelling
• Demonstrate an advanced sense of coherence and cohesion in written discourse
• Consider, apply, and control stylistic options (prose style, figurative language, voice, register, tone, word choice, etc.)

Think Like Writers

• Talk and write about their writing and consciously synthesize and integrate insights from one project into another
• Articulate a statement of identity as a writer (including style, voice, and ethos)
• Use multiple research methods (both primary and secondary), utilizing and documenting their research in their writing
• Develop a sophisticated vocabulary for thinking, talking, and writing about their own and others process of writing and the texts they produce
• Assess and respond to other writers, paying attention to the choices writers make, the reasons for those choices, and the effect those choices have on an audience
• Recognize and gear writing towards a pluralistic and diverse world

Read Like Writers

• Demonstrate an understanding that writing emerges from an existing conversation and be able to join that existing conversation
• Read widely and read a variety of texts, both creative and professional in nature
• Exhibit knowledge and reading skill by effectively incorporating their reading into their writing