All first-year students at SPU take a two-course writing sequence, WRI 1000 & 1100.<\/p>\n
The first, Academic Writing and Inquiry Seminar, focuses\u00a0on academic<\/em>\u00a0writing<\/em>, writing that is defined by its reliance upon\u00a0inquiry<\/em>. \u00a0In\u00a0Rewriting: How to Do Things with Texts,\u00a0<\/em>Joseph Harris speaks to another characteristic of academic writing, that it “is bound up inextricably with the books we are reading, the movies we are watching, the music we are listening to, and the ideas of the people we are talking with.” \u00a0He continues, claiming that our work “has its roots in the work of others–in response, reuse, and rewriting.” \u00a0This conversation happens not only in the texts students read and write, but also in the classroom. \u00a0So Writing 1000\u00a0is taught as a seminar<\/em>, with 20 students coming together, devoting sustained attention and care to writerly problems,\u00a0at the end of the course each student able to say something they could not have said on their own, this conversation vital to the work of\u00a0the academy.<\/p>\n The second, Disciplinary Writing and Research Seminar, is taught by faculty across campus.\u00a0To succeed in the course, students will need to apply the writing skills they learned in 1000 to various disciplinary contexts. \u00a0That is, they\u2019ll work in the various genres that define academic writing: \u00a0lab reports, method analyses, proposals, resumes, spec sheets, research papers, poster projects, etc. WRI 1100 teaches a wide variety of writing. \u00a0Yet, because all sections of the course are grounded in the same outcomes and standards, the course is consistent enough that a student taking a section from Economics will still be well served if she chooses to major in Biology. All faculty teaching WRI 1100 work closely with SPU’s disciplinary librarians<\/a>; integrating the library into the course is one of the hallmarks of our Writing Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All first-year students at SPU take a two-course writing sequence, WRI 1000 & 1100. The first, Academic Writing and Inquiry Seminar, focuses\u00a0on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholars.spu.edu\/spuwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholars.spu.edu\/spuwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholars.spu.edu\/spuwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholars.spu.edu\/spuwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholars.spu.edu\/spuwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scholars.spu.edu\/spuwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"https:\/\/scholars.spu.edu\/spuwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholars.spu.edu\/spuwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}