The Beloit writing program helps students learn to write for varied audiences and purposes and to feel more confident about their writing skills. The College supports student writers in a variety of settings, including the first-year course, a writing center, and a wide selection of courses that treat writing as a primary and as a secondary topic. Writing is only one part of an intellectual process. Most courses that treat writing, therefore, do so in the context of a substantial theme or list of readings.
Writing is a continuing process.
This process continues in students' course work and in their lives outside the academic environment. College Writing 100 varies in subject matter from section to section, according to the interests and concerns of the individual instructors. A writing-intensive course. Students must complete an additional writing-intensive course within their first five semesters. Specific sections of introductory courses, reserved for first-year students, may be among these courses.