WRITING ATTRIBUTE

Courses with a Writing Attribute promote greater facility with written communication across academic, professional, and civic communities. In these courses, teachers help students to:

 PRACTICE

writing as a process rather than a product

IDENTIFY

previous writing experiences and transfer writing practices to different types of writing across academic disciplines 

DEFINE

various disciplinary or field-specific writing expectations

 

General Education recognizes that students write, read, think, and learn in all different languages and it is important to make space in the classroom for all language backgrounds. Instructors are supporting students' linguistic diversity by:

Emphasizing

that all writers have more to learn. 

Resisting

grading based only on grammar or mechanics.

Incorporating

low-stakes assignments.

Engaging

in reflective writing about student identity and language.

Providing

opportunities for feedback and revision

Recognizing

writing as a tool for learning

Required Student Learning Outcome:

Students will demonstrate rhetorical awareness and writing proficiency by writing for a variety of contexts and executing disciplinary genre conventions of organization, design, style, mechanics and citation format while reflecting on their writing development.

Check out the Writing Attribute Initiative: All Writers Have More to Learn in General Education for additional information about the vision and requirements of the GE Writing Attribute. 

Check out the Writing & Learning Project website for additional information, guides, and resources. 
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