Writing Intensive and Writing-Across-the-Core

Requirements

Accepted 4.24.08

Writing Intensive Requirements

Inquiry Seminar:

A Writing-Intensive Inquiry Seminar is one in which students

1. Develop information literacy and research competencies

2. Practice generative writing as a way of learning

3. Practice a writing process, either 1) using a draft-revision cycle; or 2) breaking a large assignment into graded stages

4. Write a research paper

5. Produce at least 15 pages of polished writing spread across multiple writing assignments

Capstone:

As the capstone course is developed, we recommend that it address in its conception similar standards for Writing Intensity: a substantial writing assignment, information literacy, and attention to the writing process.

Writing-across-the-Core Requirement

1. Statements on Writing:

Each department or program will produce a one-page statement that

• explains the range of writing used in the discipline or program

• describes writing expectations for under-graduates in the discipline or program

• identifies how students in the department develop the skills to meet those writing expectations (specific courses that address writing, sequences of courses, kinds of recurrent assignments, and so forth)

2. Core Applications:

As they are proposed initially and/or as they are renewed on a seven-year cycle, applications for Core courses will address an item like this:

Explain how this course contributes to the objectives identified in your department’s or program’s statement on writing.

3. Core Assessment:

Assessment of the Core will include students’ continual demonstration of and reflection on the Core’s writing goals.