The Rutgers Writing Program provides instruction to thousands of undergraduate students every academic year. We are the only place where Rutgers students can complete their WC core requirement: College Writing. This course is taught not just by the Writing Program's full-time faculty body but also by part-time lecturers and graduate student teaching assistants from disciplines across SAS. The Writing Program full-time faculty also teach courses for multilingual writers as well as advanced research, technical, and professional writing courses that fulfill additional core requirements (WCd and WCr). All of our undergraduate courses prepare students to succeed throughout their academic careers at Rutgers and beyond.
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Academics:
- Minor in Business and Technical Writing
- Placement
- Transfer Students: Course Equivalency Requests
- Advising
- Registration
- Tutoring & the Learning Centers
Special Programs:
- Rutgers English Language Institute
- Writing Program Institute: Dual Enrollment Program and Professional Development Outreach
- The Undergraduate Research Writing Conference
- Dialogues@RU Journal
What we do:
To assist students in developing the critical thinking and writing skills most highly valued in the university, the Writing Program has developed a curriculum centered on student writing. Our courses presuppose that the context for writing is always prior reading. In this spirit, students spend time reading, discussing, and writing about texts that deal with some of the most important issues of our time, including the topic of education.
Our instructors offer feedback on rough and final drafts of students’ work, as opposed to providing workbook-style exercises or lectures on correctness and style. Grammar, clarity, and structural coherence are always discussed in the context of revision. Our basic approach is to help students recognize the patterns of error in their own writing, and to see problems of organization as a consequence of conceptual confusion. Regardless of their incoming skill levels, all students can expect to spend a substantial amount of class time reading, discussing, and revising peers' essays. With the help of these techniques, students learn to generate clear and cohesive writing that advances argument.