Programs: Writing Workshop
Students
If you are in English 109.01, 109.02, or 110.03, you are part of the Writing Workshop. In your class, you will have no more than fourteen classmates and a teacher who wants to help you get the best start possible in your college career. Through this small class, you will experience an intensive introduction into college writing, a kind of work that may be much different from the writing you did in high school. You will be writing, reading and discussing, making connections between what you read and what you and other class members write. Collaborative work will be a central part of your perceptions and experiences and an important part of learning. Sometimes collaboration may mean writing a paper with a group of your classmates. Other times, it may mean discussing and negotiating ideas about what you have read or talking about your writing with classmates, your teacher or writing tutors. You should expect to be writing frequently every week, nearly every day; turning in several drafts of each essay; getting your teacher's and classmates' advice about revision (advice all writers need and the best seek out); and developing a kind of independent thought that is a crucial component of the kind of writing and reading required at the university. Most students who place into the Writing Workshop agree afterward that their courses in this program help them a lot. We hope you will have some fun learning as much as you can about writing, reading, and thinking like a college student.
