Regis College English Dept. The Writing Program at Regis College consists of two courses offered in the first year, a student-assisted tutorial program supporting all programs at the college, and a minor in writing. EN 100 Basic Writing. This course offers foundational help to students whose writing abilities need to be brought up to the standard of college work. The approach to teaching writing is in concert with the overall departmental approach, i.e. process writing and the use of collaborative projects to enhance individual writing ability along with special tutorial requirements.
Special attention is given to grammar, structure, and development of writing projects.
EN 105 Writing Seminar. This is a required writing course designed for first-year college students to sharpen their writing skills, develop critical thinking abilities, learn to use their own writing voices in various levels of discourse, organize ideas, develop a sense of audience, employ phases of the writing process to develop ideas and refine prose, and to use collaboration for feedback from peers for developing essays. Emphasis in GEN ED 105 is on analytical writing. Research methods are taught but the research paper per se is not required. Students produce a writing portfolio to show the development of their writing over the course of the semester.