WIC courses shall feature grading policies which give significant weight to the quality of student writing. WIC courses shall focus on content related to the discipline and be taught by faculty knowledgeable about the discipline. WIC courses should be firmly grounded in each department's discipline. At the same time, WIC faculty should consider themselves facilitators of student writing improvement, not just evaluators of finished products. Particularly since WIC courses may be substituted for Writing 323, they should incorporate specific methods of helping students improve their writing.
Various methods are possible.
WIC courses shall discuss writing issues pertinent to that discipline. In planning the course content for a WIC course, instructors should also allow for some discussion for how writing is used by professionals in that particular discipline. A WIC course in business might, for example, discuss the writing done by working managers and what makes that writing effective or convincing. In some fields, this discussion might apply to the kinds of writing done in graduate school. To raise such issues, instructors should consider assigning at least one paper representative of the kinds of writing done in the discipline, whether that be a case study, lab report, research article, review of the literature, project or grant proposal, or the like.