Frequently Asked Questions || Resources for Students || List of Current Instructors || Resources for Instructors

Contact Information

The WRT 100 program is being directed by Professor Martha Krupa for the 2008-2009 academic year. Professor Krupa can be reached at mkrupa2727@aol.com.

If you are a student who is having a problem in WRT 100, you must first talk to your instructor about any problems or issues that you are having. If you and your instructor cannot resolve the problem, you may then contact the program director.

Force-Add Policy

As the semester begins, the WRT 100 program chairs would like to remind students and advisors of their force add policy: The WRT 100 program chairs will not force add without an instructor’s permission and signature on the force-add form. Force adds are rarely granted and are completely at the discretion of the instructor. Talk to the instructor first.

Description

The course catalog describes Writing 100 (Thinking and Writing) as: A one-semester freshman course on a variety of topics teaches writing as a means of acquiring, as well as expressing ideas. Students examine essay components as a way of developing and refining their own ideas; write multiple-draft summary, analysis, argument, and research papers; and learn how to avoid plagiarism. This course cannot be challenged.

At the end of a WRT 100 course, students will be able to:

1. Use writing for inquiry, learning, critical thinking, communicating, and engaging with the world.
2. Respond appropriately to different kinds of rhetorical situations and to the needs of different audiences.
3. Demonstrate control of generic conventions such as structure, development, paragraphing, tone, mechanics, and design.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of writing as an open, collaborative, and social process and work through the stages of the writing process: invention, drafting, revising, and editing.
5. Critique and edit their own work and the works of others.
6. Develop a specific research question or focus to respond to a writing assignment.
7. Identify a need for information and access, evaluate, use, and attribute primary and secondary sources in their work.
8. Integrate the words and ideas of others into their work and avoid accidental or deliberate plagiarism.
9. Write with clarity, brevity, coherence, and control of conventions such as syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
10. Use technologies to conduct research and to draft, revise, edit, and design documents. 

In Thinking and Writing, students use writing, reading, and collaboration to explore and develop writing strategies for college-level work. Students engage in research, pre-writing, and revision with the help of their peers and their instructors to gain a better understanding of how to produce good writing and how to integrate the ideas of others into their own writing. Students also learn to document their research using appropriate academic conventions. Most importantly, students should gain a better understanding of their own writing processes by engaging in a variety of writing and reading strategies and reflecting on their work. Because class size is capped at 17, students can expect a lot of individual attention from instructors.

This portion of the Web site provides a list of frequently asked questions about WRT 100 (and their answers) a list of current instructors (with contact information), a page of resources for students, and a page of resources for instructors.