Lower to Higher Order Thinking Skills. In both speech and writing, students demonstrate a full range of abilities from lower to higher order thinking skills.

Rhetorical Effectiveness. Students are able to speak and write with rhetorical effectiveness, using a variety of forms and modes appropriate to a range of settings and purposes.

Creativity and Intellectual Virtues. Students’ speaking and writing display creativity and the intellectual virtues of fair-mindedness, openness to ideas, openness to criticism, and judicious and patient use of reasoning.

Historical and Cultural Awareness. In both speaking and writing, students display historical and cultural awareness.

Christian Faith Without Clichés. Students are able to speak and write about matters of the Christian faith in relation to learning without reliance on popular clichés.

Mature, Critical Assessment. Students are capable of mature, critically insightful self-assessment and peer assessment of both writing and speaking.