This writing tutorial is designed for students who need more directed practice in navigating the academic writing process. The course emphasizes the analytic and argumentative writing and critical reading essential for university-level work.

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WRIT 1340 is designed to help PSSP students build foundational academic literacy skills essential for success in college. Through a four-week curriculum, students engage in reading, writing, researching, and speaking activities that enable them to practice strategies such as rhetorical analysis, expository writing, and oral presentation, as well as learn about and reflect on the ways that digital tools and resources, like GenAI, can help or disrupt learning. Students participate in small seminar-style classes, one-on-one conferences with instructors, and weekly writing studios to explore big ideas (about topics such as place, happiness, and food) that encourage personal reflection on the transition to university life. The course culminates in a writing assessment to guide future writing support and FWS placement.

Full details for WRIT 1340 - Reading, Writing, and Thinking About Big Ideas

This course prepares graduate instructors of Cornell's First-Year Writing Seminars to teach courses that both introduce undergraduates to particular fields of study and help them develop writing skills they will need throughout their undergraduate careers. Seminar discussions and readings on pedagogical theories and practices provide an overview of the teaching of writing within a disciplinary context. Participants develop written assignments to be used in their own First-Year Writing Seminars.

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