George Mason University

Students who successfully complete ENGL302 will be able to adapt their reading and writing to meet the expectations of their academic discipline and future workplace. They will be able to demonstrate the ability to

• apply critical reading strategies that are appropriate to advanced reading in their academic discipline and in their possible future workplaces
• recognize how knowledge is constructed in their academic discipline and possible future workplaces, attending to issues such as kinds of claims or questions posed by advanced or professional writers
• evidence considered sufficient to support arguments
• analyze the rhetorical situations—audience, purpose, and context—of texts produced in their academic disciplines and in possible future workplaces
• produce writing—including arguments or proposals—that is appropriate for a range of rhetorical situations within their academic disciplines and possible future workplaces, with particular attention to textual features such as
• common genres
• organizational strategies
• style, tone, and diction
• expected citation formats

Advanced Writing Goals: Students who successfully complete ENGL302 will demonstrate that they have continued to develop their research and writing strategies to an advanced level; they will be able to

• use writing as a tool for exploration and reflection in addressing advanced problems, as well as for exposition and persuasion
• successfully employ strategies for writing as a recursive process of inventing, investigating, shaping, drafting, revising, and editing to meet a range of advanced academic and professional expectations—including, when given appropriate time for drafting and editing, the ability to produce documents in Standard Edited American English that are generally free from error
• collaborate with others as they write, through peer review, group projects, and/or consulting with outside experts (writing center tutors, librarians, subject-matter experts, workplace informants, etc.)
• identify, evaluate, and use research sources (print and electronic), to include advanced online library searching of databases pertinent to their disciplines and the critical use of web sites
• employ a range of appropriate technologies to support their researching, reading, writing, and thinking, with particular attention to the ways that advanced students and professionals locate, analyze, organize, and share information