Over the course of their years in college, students should be given instruction is writing for general academic purposes as well as discipline-specific purposes. Students should also receive training and experience in writing-related skills and technology connected with their future careers. As with the previous dimension, courses fulfilling the liberal-arts and major requirements can combine to offer students a thorough training in these practical uses for writing within and outside the academy. Writing as a Mode of Learning Our focus in this issue, this dimension of writing taps into the vast potential of writing for improving learning and encouraging student development. Although the concept has become part of the bedrock of composition theory, the phrase, writing as a mode of learning, originated in Janet Emig's 1981 essay of the same name.
Most writing is slower than talking.
An old adage says that we don't know what we think until we speak or write our thoughts. Copyright 1998 David Kimmel Heidelberg College Return to Faculty Resources Page.