Writing

As much as you are learning how to write for an academic audience in this class, you are also developing a strong, reproducible writing process that you will carry forward with you throughout college and beyond. Writing for college requires a thoughtful commitment to developing your own scholarship.

Only through thoughtfully producing and revising a significant quantity of writing will you improve the quality of your writing. All writing process assignments help you to construct a polished essay, so it is important that you complete all of them, as they are part of the process writing to build them.

The writing process work you do will form the basis for our discussions and for your final essay assignments. The writing process assignments are completed and organized like this:

  • Writing Process Assignments that will help you to develop the content of your essays through close reading.
  • Formal Assignments that will help you to revise and develop your writing (reading responses and drafts) for an academic audience.