Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Use grammar to develop her or his own powers of expression
• Make appropriate style choices for different kinds of writing
• Examine how language works, how it reconstructs the world around us and how it can be used to lead, mislead and manipulate
• Achieve her or his communicative purpose through precise word choice
• Work with dictionaries and other references as writing and editing tools