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1. To use writing,
reading, and research as means of general cognitive development, as
activities which foster intellectual growth in an academic
environment.
2. To encourage
students to see writing as a learning tool that is important in all
contexts and is not confined to the writing
classroom.
3. To teach students
to plan, organize, and develop essays based on introspection,
general observation, deliberation, research, and the critical
reading of mature prose texts.
4. To make students
aware of their individual voices and how those voices can be adapted
to fit different audiences and rhetorical
situations.
5. To encourage
students to view writing as a process by using several prewriting,
organizing, drafting, revising, and editing
strategies.
6. To stress the
importance of clear communication by teaching students to revise
effectively through the complete rethinking, restructuring, and
rewriting of essays.
7. To encourage
independent thinking.
8.
To teach students to document correctly and to
incorporate borrowed material smoothly and
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