Learning Objectives:
1. Employ all stages of the academic writing process and appropriate grammatical structures to compose coherent, well-organized, 350–450-word texts for specific purposes, including to explain, to compare, and to persuade.
2. Produce professionally-formatted documents and attribute ideas to their original authors by applying APA referencing and formatting conventions.
3. Develop a repertoire of reading and vocabulary strategies that can be used to gain a deeper understanding of a text, including distinguishing main ideas from details, identifying purpose, and inferring vocabulary meaning from context.
4. Draw upon background knowledge and critical thinking skills to evaluate concepts in academic and non-academic texts, and apply these concepts to strengthen arguments and support opinions in writing.