The foundation of the Upper-Level Writing Requirement remains the same. With the dedication of the Gayle Morris Sweetland Writing Center in 1997 we have the opportunity to turn a requirement into a program. Our goal is to enhance learning and invigorate the rhetoric of inquiry by teaching the generic conventions of academic and the ways of constructing knowledge within specific fields. AWD courses use a number of formats. Most focus on a content area within the discipline.
Most departments incorporate the requirement into established courses.
This approach emphasizes to students the idea that writing and revision are integral to learning content. Faculty respond to student writing primarily through written comments on papers and through conferences. In addition, some instructors use class time to combine feedback to students with coverage of new content. ECB Outreach English Dept. Designed by Elizabeth Vera , 1998.