UH Hilo's Writing Intensive Program is part of a systemwide movement to incorporate more writing in courses from all disciplines. Writing is considered to be a process in which multiple drafts are encouraged. Writing contributes significantly to each student's course grade.
Students do a substantial amount of writing.
Depending on course content and the types of writing appropriate to the discipline, students may write critical essays or reviews, journals, lab reports, research reports or reaction papers. To allow for meaningful professor-student interactions on each student's writing, the class is restricted to 20 students. At least one of these WI courses must be numbered 300 or above. Freshmen entering in 1995-96 must complete two WI courses. Freshmen entering in 1996-1997 and later must complete three WI courses.