English 102 will offer you multiple and varied opportunities to:

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• Learn, practice, apply, and reflect upon several new research tools, strategies, and heuristics, using both divergent and convergent thinking.

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• Seek out help from multiple places and perspectives when gathering, assessing and assembling information (including librarians, peers, course instructor, writing tutors,and other researchers).

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• Begin to understand how information systems (collections of recorded information) are organized in order to access relevant information more easily.

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• Understand and apply the concept that 'information has value' through ethical attribution and use of others' ideas as acknowledgement of the labor and expertise that goes into creating research.

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• Understand that most research extends beyond the academic world to the community at large - information creation may focus on personal or societal needs.

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• Take risks, experiment, and try new things.

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• Persist in the face of challenges and learn from failure.

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• Resist the lure of easy answers, quick fixes, and simplistic solutions.

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• Recognize, honor, and leverage the unique access to information that college provides.

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• See oneself as a rhetor, researcher and contributor to the 'information marketplace'.