The objectives of the Course Project are to fulfill this course's terminal course objectives:

1. Given an essay or scholarly article in any media, develop an informed opinion which includes external evidence and personal experience.

2. Given persuasive rhetorical strategies, such as appeals to reasoning, credibility and emotion, demonstrate the strategies to advance an argument.

3. Given a student-selected topic, organize ideas through prewriting tasks and prepare a persuasive draft.

4. Given strategies for determining the quality of source material, evaluate scholarly articles and other types of source material to assess their appropriateness for a research project.

5. Given various strategies for presenting research, compare and contrast the ways to communicate research findings to an audience.

6. Given the conventions for attributing source material, create appropriate citations, such as through summary, paraphrase, in-text, and reference citations.

7. Given a sample of writing requiring revision, refine and develop ideas in order to convey new knowledge that reflects original thought.