Students will be able to:

• Name the advantages of making a habit of writing, and list methods to generate the habit
• Access tools and describe methods for avoiding and managing writer’s block
• Describe the different phases of the editing process
• List the primary types of academic writing
• Define primary rhetorical elements (purpose, audience, and values)

Students will be able to:

• Recall the primary types of academic writing and name the elements of each
• Identify underlying structures of academic writing examples
• Identify words and phrases that indicate relationships (transition words, rhetorical structures, etc.)
• Notice and name values and assumptions within texts

Students will be able to:

• Recall the steps of the editing process
• List methods of organizing their workflow during the editing process
• Categorize existing ideas into a structure using the branch, stem, and leaf method
• Identify the subjects of sentences
• Reorganize sentences based upon the subjects and relationship words therein

Students will be able to:

• Accurately insert various punctuation marks (apostrophe, colon, semicolon, dash, period, comma) to vary writing
• Adjust clarity of relationships between ideas by inserting transition words, inserting definitions, and clarifying assumptions
• Restructure sentences to fit within their context, evaluating subject-verb choice and active vs. passive voice