Process
Employ informed and flexible processes for writing and speaking, including: creating and/or finding ideas about which to write; collecting evidence and data; 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.
Style
Write in a correct, clear, and graceful prose style.
Revision
Effectively evaluate and comment on the writing of others to facilitate revision.
Rhetorical Purpose
Analyze rhetorical aspects of audience, purpose, and context to communicate technical information effectively in written, oral, and visual media.
Genre
Recognize structures or genres typically used in science and engineering, understand the processes that produce them, and the organizational and stylistic conventions characteristic of them, and apply this knowledge to their own writing tasks.
