{"id":811,"date":"2022-09-09T16:52:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T16:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/wip\/?page_id=811"},"modified":"2022-09-09T16:52:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T16:52:40","slug":"what-is-a-wi-course","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/wip\/what-is-a-wi-course\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a WI Course"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>All students are required to fulfill Tarleton&#8217;s Writing Proficiency Requirement as a condition for the baccalaureate degree. To fulfill this requirement, students must successfully complete two upper-level Writing Intensive courses in their major or designed for their degree plan. Therefore, all courses developed by departments for WI designation&nbsp;<strong>must be upper-level courses.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Writing Intensive course is really not an innovation. Many faculty members already teach many of their classes as Writing Intensive courses, but they just don&#8217;t have the WI designation\u2014yet. For a class to be considered Writing Intensive, these things need to happen:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Within Writing Intensive classes,&nbsp;<strong>writing is discussed as writing, and it is taught as part of the content of a WI course.<\/strong>&nbsp;Instructors discuss the hallmarks of good writing within their disciplines; they model effective writing practices; and they provide instruction in such areas as purpose, invention, revision, and style.<\/li><li>Students have an opportunity to strengthen their academic writing skills and develop their writing skills as novice professionals within their major fields of study. This means&nbsp;<strong>faculty members teaching Writing Intensive courses need to provide students with effective feedback on writing assignments so that students can improve their writing skills within the duration of a WI course.<br><\/strong><\/li><li>A significant enough portion of the students&#8217; grades in a Writing Intensive course must come from the writing they produce to guarantee that&nbsp;<strong>students cannot pass a Writing Intensive course without passing the writing component(s) of that class.<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All students are required to fulfill Tarleton&#8217;s Writing Proficiency Requirement as a condition for the baccalaureate degree. To fulfill this requirement, students must successfully complete two upper-level Writing Intensive courses &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":580,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-811","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/wip\/author\/","display_name":""},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 4 years ago","modified":"Updated 4 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on September 9, 2022","modified":"Updated on September 9, 2022"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on September 9, 2022 4:52 pm","modified":"Updated on September 9, 2022 4:52 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","featured_img":false,"series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/wip\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}