Writing is central to scholarly endeavors and to the college experience. Through work in the writing studio, and through actively transporting what we learn in the writing studio to other classes and to extra-curricular and social settings, we come to understand how writing supports thinking, learning, and communicating. We apply what we practice in WRT 105 to studying, listening observing, reading, writing, collaborating, and learning in other classes. We learn faculty expectations for academic writing and have experience producing written work that meets criteria for successful academic writing. We compose texts that explore hypotheses, draw inferences, organize and order ideas, analyze and interpret data, make and support claims, reflect, and assess, and learn campus-wide expectations for technical control.
Writing is an ability that grows and changes over the course of a lifetime.
We gain a sense of ourselves as developing writers, readers, and thinkers who are prepared to join the conversation of scholarly inquiry, communication, deliberation, and debate. We have a sense of our strengths and of the challenges we face as active stewards of our own writing development. The follow-up units will continue this work with Writing and Interpreting and Writing and Persuading. You will compose multiple pieces of writing leading toward a more formal paper, reflecting upon and complicating the subject, and applying it to your own lives as well as to articles you read by other writers. As you move toward the formal paper, you will also engage in collaborative workshops, helping each other to revise and copy-edit your work.