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Elements of Academic Writing
Students will be able to:
- Articulate a focused argument (or line of thinking)
- Identify a genuine intellectual question or problem
- Discuss relevant evidence (including written texts, visual images, graphs and charts, and electronic media) and analyze it effectively
- Employ logical structures (paragraphs with identities, transitional language, and the progressive development of ideas)
- Engage sources critically and develop information literacy
Faculty can prepare students to hone these abilities in some of the following ways:
- Designing writing assignments that give students opportunities to practice particular elements of writing
- Providing students with language with which to discuss these elements at work in their writing, that of their peers, and that of professional writers
- Using course reading to model the elements at work in published writing
- Responding to student writing strategically, emphasizing elements of writing most relevant to assignments at hand or most significant in terms of each student’s individual development