WRIT 1301 introduces students to rhetorical principles that provide a framework for successful written communication in college and beyond. Students study and write in a variety of genres and multimodal forms. The course focuses on writing as a way of knowing and learning to develop ideas through critical thinking, including analysis and synthesis. Based on the assumption that writing is a social activity, the course is a workshop format and requires active engagement in the writing process, including pre-writing, peer review, revision, and editing. Students develop information literacy and hone the ability to locate, evaluate, and effectively and ethically incorporate information into their own texts. In the honors section of WRIT 1301, students will meet the same course outcomes with a deepened focus on and attention to writing processes and rhetorical strategies that are attuned to students' academic, scholarly, and professional goals. As part of this honors experience, students will produce a research proposal relevant and responsive to their intended field of study. The writing and research processes that students engage in to compose the proposal will be navigated, facilitated, and guided by frequent interactions with and feedback from peers and the instructor, and by regularly embedded metacognitive practice. The course will emphasize student-driven topic selection and inquiry development, peer-to-peer interactions, and metacognition so as to support a deep experience with and development of capacity in collaboration and in the iterative writing and research processes.