We attend to and value process, therefore we submit writing which documents process, which are collected, organized, reflected upon, and evaluated in portfolios. Writing is a social act. Language develops in communities, so the writing studio encourages interaction between teachers and students and among groups of students. We work in both large and small groups to discuss readings, invent organizational schemes and solve problems, take notes, plan presentations, workshop drafts and copy-edit later drafts, and to assess and evaluate each others work. We learn specific strategies for collaborating with class colleagues, and experience the making of language, meaning, and knowledge as communal.
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.