A Writing Intensive course is still a content course, a course in which you will be responsible for mastering the information you are required to know. However, a Writing Intensive course will help you acquire this knowledge through writing about the content you will cover in your course. A Writing Intensive Course also serves another important purpose: it will help you learn how to produce the documents that will be required of you someday in your major field of study, and it will help you learn how to write as a professional within you major field of study.
For a class to be considered Writing Intensive, these things need to happen:
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Within Writing Intensive classes, writing is discussed as writing. |
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Writing is one of the objectives of any WI course. On your syllabus, writing is listed as one of the objectives for any WI course. |
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Students have an opportunity to strengthen their academic writing skills and develop their writing skills as novice professional within their major fields of study. This means Faculty members teaching Writing Intensive courses need to give students effective feedback on writing assignments so that students can improve their writing skills. |
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A significant enough portion of the students' grades in a Writing Intensive course must come from the writing they produce to guarantee that a student cannot pass a Writing Intensive course without passing the writing component(s) of that class. |
