Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: complete writing assignments that have clear purposes and defined audiences, fostered by a writing process that includes brainstorming, prewriting, outlining/planning, drafting, peer review, final drafts, and revision; write persuasive and argumentative based documents that integrate and contextualize their ideas with others' ideas in an ethical and effective manner; support their ideas with a focus on valid reasoning; retrieve information and evaluate sources in an efficient and ethical manner; discuss, evaluate, critique, and write about others' arguments by focusing on writers' tone, assumptions, evidence, and their appeals to ethics, character, reason, and emotion.