General Education at Ferris State University
WRITING
PROBLEM SOLVING AND RESEARCHING
College graduates should be able to analyze the writing situation, identify needed
information, and locate the appropriate information for their writing; specifically,
they should be able to:
- analyze their own experience to provide ideas for their writingcreate ideas for their
writing.analyze the context of the writing problem.retrieve material from various
sources.analyze themoral or ethical implications of their subject.recognize primary
and secondary sources of information available in their field and know how to read
them.assess and evaluate informationuse secondary sources available within their discipline
appropriately.analyze and interpret primary data in an appropriate form
- document primary and secondary sources appropriately.
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