Students will demonstrate an ability to:

• write with purpose.
• write for an audience.
• write with authority.
• write with an organizational schema.
• state and develop and ideas clearly.
• write with syntactical/grammatical competence.
• use appropriate research methods.
• recognize plagiarism and avoid it.

Students will demonstrate the ability to write:

• essays
• research papers
• essay exams
• project/lab reports
• application papers (papers that relate theory and/or concepts to personal experience or data).