Process
Employ informed and flexible processes for writing and speaking, including creating and/or finding ideas, evidence, and data to write about; planning and drafting; revising; editing; and designing or presenting a message so that it is successfully understood by a specified audience.
Structure
Write coherent and unified texts, including effective introductions, clear thesis statements, supporting details, transitions, and strong conclusions.
Rhetorical Situation
Use various methods of invention, organization, and style to adapt written and oral forms of communication to a specific rhetorical situation.
Sources
Utilize the library and electronic resources to locate relevant information, assess its reliability and usefulness, and effectively and ethically incorporate it into their own writing by following an appropriate style of documentation.
Peer Revision
Effectively evaluate and comment on the writing of others to facilitate revision.
Style
Write in a correct, clear, and graceful prose style.
Audience
Write and speak effectively about the arts to academic and general audiences and for a variety of purposes.
Critical Reading
Critically read and evaluate different artistic mediums as well as scholarship in the humanities.
