Writing is a way of understanding and creating the world in which we live. Although this class takes place in school, education is but one site of writing C in educational settings, people write as a way of knowing various subjects and understanding their own lives in relationship to those subjects. Perhaps less obvious are the uses of writing as a way of creating the educational experience C scholars and students writing within subject areas create the shape of those fields in ways that extend outside the academic setting, into science, industry and business, ultimately contributing to what we think we know about ourselves and our world.
Writing permeates modern society.
C your experiences with and feelings about writing. The next section of the course focuses on education and how you as a student can make sense of this experience for yourself and for others. The third section of the course builds on the Education section by asking that you further explore a scholarly area which interests you. Finally, we will return to writing, drawing together the themes of the entire course. Looking then at yourselves as writers, your role as students in education, at writing in a specific academic context, and reviewing those explorations should provide you with a substantial introduction to college writing.