You may feel that you have to be alone to write, and this may be physically true. Writing is not complete until it has reached, physically and intellectually, the audience for whom it was intended. Your enrollment in this course makes you an important contributing member of a supportive, committed writing community. Writing is self-taught. You learn to write by doing it, not by listening to somebody tell you about it.
Writing is a series of choices.
But if writing were only a set of rules, learning to write effectively would be as easy as mastering the multiplication tables. And that is why good writing is always interesting. Writing as process. You will write for every class, often going back and re-working what you have written earlier. Assigned reading and discussion of reading Early draft of essay for peer review Re-drafting based on peer review Intermediate draft for my review Drafting of polished draft based on my review Optional revision 2.