3 State of Idaho General Education Written Outcomes

Upon completion of a course in this category, students are able to demonstrate the following competencies:

1.    Use flexible writing process strategies to generate, develop, revise, edit, and proofread texts.

2.    Adopt strategies and genre appropriate to the rhetorical situation.

3.    Use inquiry-based strategies to conduct research that explores multiple and diverse ideas and perspectives, appropriate to the rhetorical context.

4.    Use rhetorically appropriate strategies to evaluate, represent, and respond to the ideas and research of others.

5.    Address readers’ biases and assumptions with well-developed evidence-based reasoning.

6.    Use appropriate conventions for integrating, citing, and documenting source materials as well as for surface-level language and style.

7.    Read, interpret, and communicate key concepts in writing and rhetoric.

Required Modes: Personal Narrative → Informative → Analysis → Argumentative