Writing Across the Curriculum

Scott Miller

Writing Component for Two-Semester FYE Seminar Based on Summer/fall 2005 discussion in the GE Initiative Task Force Compiled and written by Scott Miller, Director, SSU Writing Center This First-Year-Experience course constitutes your foundational learning in writing for the University. As such, it includes study and practice in the expression of facts and ideas; principles of investigation, of organization, and of effective writing style, with emphasis upon expository writing and upon developing analytical reading ability. The reading and writing components of the course satisfy GE, category A2. [Read more...]

Mary Anne Hutchinson

At Utica College we too have gone through several permutations of a "writing intensive" curriculum. Those of us in the English Dept., for the most part, subscribe to Barbara Walvoord's view that every course should be writing intensive.

However, several years ago a college-wide task force on writing (of which I was briefly a part until I withdrew in absolute horror at what was being formalized) proposed a two part Writing-across-the-Curriculum requirement. [Read more...]