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Style, Conventions, and Mechanics
Students will be able to:
- Write in clear, controlled prose
- Employ standard usage of English grammar and mechanics (including sentence construction, verb consistency, pronoun consistency, and appropriate syntax)
- Write in a voice appropriate to college-level inquiry in general and individual assignments in particular
- Identify audience and orient readers accordingly
- Cite sources appropriately
Faculty can prepare students to hone these abilities in some of the following ways:
- Providing models of strong student and/or professional writing and discussing the stylistic and rhetorical strategies that make it successful
- Creating opportunities for students to write both formally and informally and to reflect on the differences between formal and informal writing
- Identifying individual student weaknesses and giving students opportunities to practice their skills in these areas
- Offering students opportunities for revision
- Referring students to The Writing Center and/or CUNY Writing Fellows for tutoring
