The student produces final documents that have been edited for

• correct spelling;
• correct punctuation, including commas, colons, and semicolons;
• correct capitalization;
• effective sentence structure;
• correct common usage, including subject/verb agreement, common noun/pronoun agreement, common possessive forms, and with a variety of sentence structure, including parallel structure;
• and correct formatting.

1. knows that scientists assume that the universe is a vast system in which basic rules exist that may range from very simple to extremely complex, but that scientists operate on the belief that the rules can be discovered by careful, systemic study