Writing-Intensive Course Outcomes

In the upper-level writing-intensive courses in the major, students will…

• Develop and employ successful, flexible writing and reading strategies that support sustained inquiry in a discipline.

• Use writing strategies that achieve the purposes(s) for writing and address the expectations of audience(s) within a disciplinary context.

• Formulate research questions and employ strategies for researching and responding to those questions.

• Use discipline-specific genres to communicate information.

• Understand conventions for communicating, disseminating, and interpreting information within a discipline.