Scarsdale

Students will develop their ability to…

• employ a range of writing strategies including brainstorming and free writing, mapping and outlining, conferring with teachers, drafting, and peer editing
• identify those areas in their own writing that are in need of improvement
• sustain some measure of personal voice in their writing
• compose expository essays that sustain at length a thoughtful idea, interpretation, or analysis using well-chosen evidence
• employ a variety of rhetorical strategies and organizational techniques, and write narratives with increasing control of such elements as voice, tone, point of view and pace
• recognize and correct wordiness in their writing and employ a variety of sentence types
• complete a research project in which they compose increasingly sophisticated outlines
• use research techniques and processes that can be applied in many areas of study and to many endeavors
• read, take notes on, and integrate a variety of secondary source materials
• apply MLA documentation rules