Articulate the importance of inquiry, learning, critical thinking, and communicating in varying rhetorical and cultural contexts To read and write well means to read and write critically.

In fact, a major goal of most college curricula is to train students to be critical readers, writers, and thinkers so that they carry those habits into the real and virtual worlds beyond campus borders. Being critical in reading means knowing how to analyze distinctions, interpretations, and conclusions.

Be able to identify genre elements and determine how conventions are shaped by audience, purpose, language, culture, and expectation; identify relationships between ideas, patterns of organization, and interplay between verbal and nonverbal elements in a diverse range of texts; identify the elements of successful social media use.