Objectives for Professional Writing Minors
Professional Writing students will:
- Manage the writing process to suit the task and situation
- Control style, tone, and structure
- Apply varied rhetorical strategies
- Evaluate and integrate external texts
- Write and edit collaboratively
- Use writing technologies appropriately
Objectives for Upper Division Courses
Students will:
- learn to read more difficult texts closely and critically and to use them as models for writing projects.
- improve their ability to manage the writing process to suit the task and situation, including more advanced skills in planning, drafting, revising and editing.
- improve their ability to frame and analyze a topic or problem, do independent research, evaluate sources, and interpret and integrate information and ideas appropriately from oral and written sources.
- learn to conduct research in writing studies and professional writing.
- produce varied types of writing, including essays, reports, proposals, arguments, and technical documents.
Course-specific goals and student learning outcomes for UWP upper division classes are described on a course-by-course basis
Objectives for Lower Division Courses
Students will:
- learn to read closely and critically and to analyze the purpose, audience, format, and conventions in varied types of writing.
- experiment with and reflect on writing processes, including techniques for researching, planning, brainstorming, drafting, revising and editing.
- improve their ability to work collaboratively in peer workshops, group work, and group projects.
- learn to name, describe, analyze and apply basic concepts and principles in varied areas of writing in the disciplines and professions.
- learn to integrate ideas, data, and evidence from written and oral sources into writing projects.
- understand how writing and citing conventions vary in different disciplines and professions.
Course-specific goals and student learning outcomes for UWP lower division classes are described on a course-by-course basis