• Rhetorical Knowledge: how to craft your writing to meet the needs of specific audiences for specific purposes.
• Critical Thinking: how to make decisions about what to include and not include in your writing.
• Writing Processes: how to use invention, research, drafting, revising, and editing in your writing.
• Knowledge of Conventions: how to use various formats and stylistic choices, including genre conventions.
• Digital Technology: how to use diverse technologies to write more effectively and efficiently.
• Habits of Mind: how to benefit from curiosity, openness, engagement, creativity, persistence, responsibility, flexibility, and reflection.

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"Excellent content and structure. This is a composition course, then learners are expected to write a lot. What I like about the activities is the methodology since participants are invited to reflect a lot, revise, correct, etc., exactly what writers do in real life. In short, there are demanding but rewarding assignments, lectures are high quality and help students, in my opinion, to understand the topics easily. The instructors are nice and care about learners' challenges."

"I'm Aziz from Morocco. I always wanted to develop my writing skills especially academic writing where I still have some issues. And I believe that this course is the perfect one for me to attain that goal. Thank you edX and Arizona state university for this incredible learning opportunity and happy learning for every one enrolled in the MOOC." - _Aziz Soubai