Process
Employ informed and flexible processes for writing and speaking, including creating or finding ideas, evidence, and data; planning and drafting; revising ; editing; and designing and presenting a successful message for a specific rhetorical situation.
Structure
Write coherent and unified texts with a correct, clear, and graceful prose style, including effective introductions, clear thesis statements, support, smooth transitions, and strong conclusions.
Sources
Utilize library and electronic resources to locate relevant information, assess reliability and usefulness, and effectively and ethically incorporate it to your writing using APA documentation.
Revision
Effectively evaluate and comment on the writing of others to facilitate revision.
Pedagogy
Identify and evaluate philosophies and methods of teaching writing to children.Distinguish between and explain different theories and methods of teaching writing to school-aged children.Effectively apply those theories and methods to the teaching of writing in an elementary school setting.
Writing Instruction Project
Write a well-argued, persuasive discussion on a focused, significant issue in writing instruction for children, including appropriate counter-arguments and evidence.
Social Change
Understand how strong writing abilities and integrated language arts skills will help children and adults meet the challenges of using writing and education to change society for the best.
