- Understand and use essential terminology and key concepts in describing written communication.
- Understand and use the requirements of writing investigative reports, digital texts, and management and journalistic articles.
- Adapt written communication for a specific audience and purpose.
- Perceive writing as a process, involving planning, drafting, editing, revising, and reviewing.
- Become aware of the writing procedures.
- Locate, manage, and manipulate information using a variety of printed and electronic resources.
- Understand the uses of writing in collaborative projects and in project management.
- Produce sophisticated arguments, and be critical of arguments and statistics used in other documents.