Guidelines for Writing Intensive Courses 
             "[T]heoretical as well as empirical research indicates that revision is an important part of  learning to write effectively -- especially when students revise global features of the text." 
              -Larry Beason and Lauren Darrow, "Listening as Assessment" 104

          Designed for WIP faculty, resource pages follow that feature guidelines in a checklist format for developing writing intensive syllabi and assignments, considering feedback strategies, and working with a WIP TA, The best way to use these guidelines flexibly. In keeping with the four main criteria of WIP courses, faculty should feel free (and challenged) to create their own versions of a writing intensive class. This encouraged flexibility and the diversity is fosters is, along with the program's cross-disciplinary nature, is one of the many strengths of the WIP. 
           

          While the Writing Intensive Program emphasizes these guidelines specifically as critical parts of writing intensive courses, we realize that many of them are simply features of good teaching, whether officially "writing intensive" or not. Moreover, we realize that many faculty already do these things in their courses, and that as components of effective teaching, the principles that underlie these guidelines come to the fore whenever we ask students to write. Integrating writing into a course, as we have been emphasizing, benefits both faculty and students by asking both groups to deal with inseparable issues of epistemology, rhetoric, and style that might stay submerged in a course that relies on such measures as short answer and multiple choice testing exclusively. 

           
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