University Learning Goals |
Writing and Critical Reading
Writing and Critical Reading
EIU graduates write critically and evaluate varied sources by:
- Creating documents appropriate for specific audiences, purposes, genres, disciplines, and professions.
- Crafting cogent and defensible applications, analyses, evaluations, and arguments about problems, ideas, and issues.
- Producing documents that are well-organized, focused, and cohesive.
- Using appropriate vocabulary, mechanics, grammar, diction, and sentence structure.
- Understanding, questioning, analyzing, and synthesizing complex textual, numeric, and graphical sources.
- Evaluating evidence, issues, ideas, and problems from multiple perspectives.
- Collecting and employing source materials ethically and understanding their strengths and limitations.
Resources
February 25, 2014 workshop .
February 25, 2014 PowerPoint.
EIU Writing Across the Curriculum Handbook.
EIU Writing Across the Curriculum Appendix.
Handout: "Strategies that Foster Critical Reading."
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