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Research and Reading: By midterm, you should know how to find primary and secondary sources in a library and on the Internet, evaluate and interpret these sources, and take notes on them. As you read these sources, you also will learn to infer information about audience and purpose, thus preparing yourself to interpret the complex, often veiled messages you encounter in law, business, and the media.

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Communication: By the end of the course, you should be able to write a clear, contestable claim and support it with relevant, credible evidence drawn from primary and secondary sources. In addition, you should be able to present this evidence in a clear, organized, and engaging fashion. Specifically, you should be able to produce a piece of writing that satisfies the following criteria:

• Content: The project should thoroughly and insightfully address its subject with accurate, credible, timely, and relevant information. If the project is supposed to be argumentative, it should state a clear, substantive, contestable, and precise claim early and support this claim with appropriate evidence.
• Clarity: The project should present information in a clear, logical fashion. In particular, paragraphs generally should begin with precise topic sentences, followed by clear, well-organized sentences that support the topic sentence. The writer should use transitional words and phrases effectively to guide the reader through the information.
• Readability: The project should engage the reader with lively, concise writing and should generally lack typographical errors, as well as lapses in tone, register, punctuation, spelling, word choice, and grammar. The project should effectively incorporate source material with proper use of attribution, paraphrases, and quotations. Longer projects should begin with an engaging introduction and include a satisfying conclusion.
• Format: Parenthetical citations and the bibliography or list of works cited should conform to MLA style. The project also should conform to any particular format requirements set by the instructor.

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Technology: To complement these other skills, you will learn to make effective use of technology to find and share information. By the end of the course, you will be able to find material on the World Wide Web, communicate via a listserv or an online forum, and design a World Wide Web site.

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Deeper appreciation of language: As you practice reading and writing, you will expand your understanding of how words in print make meaning, becoming conversant with a variety of rhetorical, grammatical, and typographical concepts.

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Broader understanding of the humanities and expanded cultural literacy: In virtually all of your assignments, you will do research on and write about the history of a subject related to your prospective major. Thus, you will build a foundation for your future studies as you become familiar with important people, places, events, trends, and terms.

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