Critical Thinking, Analysis, and Research

Outcomes:​

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• Understand a variety of theoretical approaches to technical communication
   

• Understand relationships among language, knowledge, and power
   

• Recognize, analyze, and understand the contexts within which language, information, and knowledge are produced, managed, organized, and disseminated
   

• Integrate previously held beliefs, assumptions, and knowledge with new information and the ideas of others
   

• Understand ideological perspectives regarding research methods and research design
   

• Read, interpret, and evaluate research studies
   

• Identify and apply appropriate methods for investigating particular research questions