ENG 112 - Writing in the Social Sciences

• Read, analyze, evaluate, and critique arguments, sources, and forms that are common in the social sciences for their rhetorical effectiveness and underlying assumptions.
• Locate, identify, analyze, and synthesize high-quality sources common to the social sciences and use these sources to support specific arguments, claims, and assertions for a variety of audiences.
• Take a position on several issues, assertions, inferences, assumptions, questions, or ideas and use a variety of rhetorical appeals and primary and/or secondary evidence to support that position for a specific audience.
• Conduct research and cite, reference, interject, and document source materials according to the guidelines of a specific style manual(s) common in the social sciences.
• Describe how writing in the social sciences is both textual and multimodal and relies on images, sounds, and text to conduct research, instantiate knowledge, and communicate results to a variety of audiences.
• Produce written and multimodal forms common in the social sciences that conform to an audience’s expectations regarding clarity, coherence, and unity.