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Guidelines for Writing Intensive Courses
1. Courses satisfying writing intensive course (WIC) requirement must be taken after successful completion of INTD 100 and should be completed by the end of the first semester of the sophomore year. Therefore, courses meeting the WIC requirement should be lower division courses suitable for freshmen and sophomores, and thus should usually have no prerequisites. The writing intensive courses may be taken within or outside the major, and may simultaneously satisfy other liberal education requirements. 2. The writing intensive courses should focus on the development and written expression of ideas. The emphasis should be on quality of writing rather than quantity, leading to development of clear, concise prose directed at a particular audience. Although the number and length of writing assignments is not the central issue, significant development of good writing would ordinarily require at least three papers totaling at least fifteen pages of text. At least one of these papers should be rewritten after substantial feedback from the instructor. Although students should be prepared in the mechanics of writing by INTD 90 and INTD 100, grading of papers in the writing intensive course should include assessment of mechanics. 3. At least one of the writing assignments should be a longer research paper of perhaps eight pages of concise text. Research papers should emphasize using information and interpretations in presenting a case or argument rather than simply cataloging information; those papers emphasizing the analysis of textual material should involve some degree of comparison, analysis, or synthesis of ideas presented in the various sources. The research paper in a writing intensive course should provide an opportunity to practice modern bibliographic search techniques. Faculty are encouraged to make use of the expertise of the Whittier College librarians in the use of such search techniques. 4. Enrollment for courses satisfying this requirement will not exceed 25 students to allow the instructor time for careful evaluation and emphasis on structured rewriting of papers. |
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