Students successfully completing a FIQWS composition course will demonstrate ability to:
- Explore and analyze in their own and others’ writing a variety of genres and rhetorical situations.
- Develop and use strategies for reading, drafting, revising, and editing.
- Practice systematic application of citation conventions (MLA).
- Recognize and practice key rhetorical terms and strategies when engaged in writing situations.
- Develop and engage in the collaborative and social aspects of writing processes.
- Understand and use print and digital technologies to address a range of audiences.
- Locate research sources (including academic journal articles, magazine, and newspaper articles) in the library’s databases or archives and on the internet and evaluate them for credibility, accuracy, timeliness, and bias; and
- Compose texts that integrate the student’s stance and language with appropriate sources, using strategies such as summary, critical analysis, interpretation, synthesis, and argumentation.


