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Processes and Methods
Students will be able to:
- Make use of pre-writing techniques: critical reading, note-taking, brainstorming, summarizing, outlining, etc.
- Develop ideas and language through a process of drafting and revision
- Conduct research and evaluate and synthesize results
- Gain an awareness of audience
- Engage in peer critique
Faculty can prepare students to hone these abilities in some of the following ways:
- Designing assignments so that students complete them incrementally
- Responding to student writing at key moments in the writing process
- Engaging students in peer critique
- Coordinating with the library to offer specialized library resource sessions
- Emphasizing the connection between research skills and critical thinking
- Building opportunities for students to reflect on their own strengths and weaknesses into course requirements
