revise drafts to ensure precise word choice and vivid images; consistent point of view; use of simple, compound, and complex sentences; internal and external coherence; and the use of effective transitions after rethinking how well questions of purpose, audience, and genre have been addressed
write a multi-paragraph essay to convey information about a topic that: (i) presents effective introductions and concluding paragraphs, (ii) contains a clearly stated purpose or controlling idea, (iii) is logically organized with appropriate facts and details and includes no extraneous information or inconsistencies, (iv) accurately synthesizes ideas from several sources, (v) uses a variety of sentence structures, rhetorical devices, and transitions to link paragraphs
identify, use, and understand the function of the following parts of speech in the context of reading, writing, and speaking: (i) verbs (perfect and progressive tenses) and participles, (ii) appositive phrases, (iii) adverbial and adjectival phrases and clauses, (iv) conjunctive adverbs (e.g., consequently, furthermore, indeed), (v) prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement, (vi) relative pronouns (e.g., whose, that, which), (vii) subordinating conjunctions (e.g., because, since), (viii) transitions for sentence to sentence or paragraph to paragraph coherence
edit drafts for grammar, mechanics, and spelling
recognize and use punctuation marks including: (i) commas after introductory words, phrases, and clauses, (ii) semicolons, colons, and hyphens
use conventions of capitalization
spell correctly, including using various resources to determine and check correct spellings
use a variety of complete sentences (e.g., simple, compound, complex) that include properly placed modifiers, correctly identified antecedents, parallel structures, and consistent tenses
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