All Keuka College Writing Program courses are designed to address and achieve the following learning goals. We believe student writers have important things to say and we strive to put students in worthwhile conversation with each other, with their mentors, and with the world at large. Writing Program courses address and cultivate proficiency with the following principles of effective writing.
Critical faculties Students engage in and refine their critical thinking, reading, and writing processes. |
Rhetorical fluency Student writers practice rhetorical effectiveness by negotiating purpose, audience, and context. |
Process Student writers engage multiple strategies to conceptualize, develop, share, and revise their compositions. |
Conventions Students cultivate working knowledge of, facility with, and effective mediation of the conventions of academic and public discourses. |