Tier I

Writing Skills Learning Objectives:

• Communicate effectively in writing to a variety of audiences and for a variety of purposes.
• Use writing as a tool for thinking and learning.
• Develop skill in planning writing and completing tasks.
• Appropriately apply conventions of writing.

• Respond appropriately to diverse rhetorical situations.
• Understand how genres shape reading and writing.
• Write in several genres.
• Use writing and reading for inquiry, learning, thinking, and communicating.
• Integrate their own ideas with those of others.
• Understand writing as a series of tasks, including finding, evaluating, analyzing, and synthesizing primary and secondary sources.
• Understand the relationships among language, knowledge, and power.
• Be aware that it usually takes multiple drafts to create and complete a successful text of any kind.
• Develop flexible strategies for generating, revising, editing, and proof-reading<./li>
• Learn to critique their own and others' works.
• Use a variety of strategies to address a range of audiences.
• Develop knowledge of genre conventions ranging from structure and paragraphing to tone and mechanics.
• Practice appropriate means of documenting their work.