Critical Thinking, Reading and Writing

By the end of FYW, students should be able to demonstrate that they can:

• Employ writing and reading for inquiry, thinking, and communicating
• Respond and evaluate texts in multiple genres and media
• Demonstrate that a writing assignment is a series of tasks that includes finding, analyzing, and synthesizing appropriate primary and secondary sources
• Integrate their own ideas with those of others
• Interpret and explain the relationships among language, knowledge, and power