Learning Outcomes for Unit 4
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Increasing Writing Skills
You will be able to:

  • write for a variety of audiences, not just your instructor.
  • adapt your language, sentence structure, and organization to fit the audience, purpose, and topic of the writing task.
  • write for a variety of purposes.
  • focus on a central idea that controls and unifies the whole piece of writing.
  • support your ideas with details (illustrations, examples, descriptions) that will make them clear to your readers.
  • produce effective and mature papers of several paragraphs.

Increasing Reading Skills
You will be able to:

  • analyze how the work of student and professional writers achieves the writer's purpose.

Building Analytical Thinking Skills
You will be able to:

  • demonstrate maturity of thought by analyzing, questioning, and reflecting on ideas.

Improving Attitudes towards Communications Skills
You will be able to:

  • develop confidence in yourself as a writer.
  • have more awareness of your own writing process.

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