CW Description
Core Writing (CW) seminars help students improve their skills as writers and develop an effective writing process. Students will grow as writers by building effective reading and writing toolkits. They will also reflect on their existing assumptions about writing and their writing habits. Students will think about the role writing plays in their lives and communities, as well as become familiar with the expectations of academic writing. Assignments encourage student choice and give students opportunities to write about issues that matter to them. CW courses will help students develop a recursive writing process in response to feedback from individual and group conferences with the instructor, tutors, and classmates. Core writing is designed to help students successfully transition to college-level writing and to strengthen skills necessary for success in WAYS 102: College Writing Seminar.
CW Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Identify how an author shapes written language to communicate complex information, perspectives, and arguments.
- Distinguish between the conventions of formal and informal writing, as well as between life writing and academic writing.
- Use a multistage writing process (including self-reflection) to develop and communicate ideas.
- Integrate outside information through summary, paraphrase, quotation, and in text citation.
- Employ conventions of standard English, including sentence and paragraph structure, punctuation, and verb tenses.
- Use writing to help readers understand, believe and act– to clarify shared viewpoints, introduce new ideas, and sometimes to change perspective.