Overview
The WSU Writing Program is staffed with professionals and student employees who specialize in teaching, tutoring, and assessing writing in a learner-centered environment.
Its three main units are the ...
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Writing Center
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Writing Assessment program, which oversees the WSU Writing Portfolio junior requirement
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Writing in the Discipline program
The nationally acclaimed Writing Program
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has been named an "Academic Program to Look For" by U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges" ranking publication for eight of the past 10 years
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serves students as well as the faculty members who teach them
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has impacted the educations of many thousands of WSU graduates
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manages an average of 40,000 student-help contacts yearly
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assesses writing skills at the freshman and junior levels for every student
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coordinates writing experiences ranging from introductory composition to writing tasks in the general education curriculum
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services writing-in-the-disciplines [M] courses for junior and senior students as they learn to manage the writing conventions in their major
- expanded its graduate student services in 2008 with the creation of the Graduate and Professional Writing Center
- launched an online tutoring service to match specially trained peers with students with writing needs
Statewide Impact
The Writing Program has been an active participant and leader in the State-Wide Writing Initiative and Washington higher education outcomes efforts. Those included collaborations among all of the four-year, public baccalaureate universities trying to identify meaningful ways to assess for student learning outcomes in writing, critical thinking, information literacy, and quantitative and symbolic reasoning.