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 writing
• create ideas for their writing
• analyze the context of the writing problem
• retrieve material from various sources
• analyze the moral 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 information
• use 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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