Core 42: Written Communication: Objectives

State-Level Goal

To prepare students to communicate effectively with writing that exhibits solid construction resulting from satisfactory planning, discourses, and review. Students will engage in the writing process including drafting, editing and revision for success in the classroom and workforce.

Suggested Competencies

Students will demonstrate the ability to:

• Express critical and analytical thought through reading and writing.
• Compose sound and effective sentences appropriate to one’s audience and purpose.
• Compose unified, coherent, and developed paragraphs.
• Compose unified, coherent, and developed texts.
• Use a recursive writing process to develop strategies for generating, revising, editing, and proofreading texts.
• Produce rhetorically effective discourse for subject, audience, and purpose.
• Exhibit effective research and information literacy skills.