Research and Technical Writing
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) · TEKS 2017
The student writes for a variety of purposes and audiences (1)
Write informative and persuasive texts, including essays, reports, and proposals.
Use the distinguishing characteristics of various written forms, including essays, scientific reports, speeches, and memoranda.
Write in voice and style appropriate to audience and purpose.
Organize ideas in writing to ensure coherence, logical progression, and support for ideas.
The student selects and uses recursive writing processes for self-initiated and assigned writing (2)
Apply prewriting strategies to generate ideas and plan.
Employ precise language and technical vocabulary to communicate ideas clearly and concisely.
Use sentence structure, organization, and rhetorical devices appropriate to audience and purpose.
Use effective sequence and transitions to achieve coherence and meaning.
Revise drafts by rethinking content, organization, and style to better accomplish the task.
Edit as appropriate for the conventions of standard written English.
Use resources such as texts and other people for editing; August 2020 Update Page 29 §110.C. High School.
Use available technology for aspects of creating, revising, editing, and publishing texts.
Write both independently and collaboratively.
The student writes to investigate self-selected and assigned topics (3)
Use writing to formulate questions, refine topics, and clarify ideas.
Organize all types of information from multiple sources, including primary and secondary resources, using available technology such as audio, video, print, non-print, graphics, maps, and charts.
The student applies the conventions of usage and mechanics of written English (4)
Use correct capitalization and punctuation.
Use correct spelling in the final draft.
Demonstrate control over grammatical elements such as subject-verb agreement, pronoun-antecedent agreement, and verb forms in final drafts.
Use appropriate technical vocabulary.
Consistently use a documentation manual or form consistent with the student's field of study such as Modern Language Association (MLA), American Psychological Association (APA), and The Chicago Manual of Style (CMS).
The student evaluates his/her own writing and the writing of others (5)
Analyze and discuss published pieces as writing models.
Apply criteria to evaluate writing.
Accumulate, review, and evaluate his/her own written work to determine its strengths and weaknesses and to set goals as a writer.