Statistics of Writing to Learn
- Proposed: Fall 1989
- Enacted: Spring 1990
- Originally referred to as: Writing Intensive
- Changed name to: Writing to Learn in Fall in 1999
- Since its beginning:
- Now considered to be part of the Writing Across the Disciplines
- Students have only been allowed to take one Writing to Learn per semester as stated by the course sequence
- Writing to Learn courses have either been taught by Associate or full time Professors
- All the teachers have had to undergo a Writing to Learn workshop
- Instructors take part in this program on a volunteer basis
- WL classes open and close depending on student demand
- The average WL class has:
- An average of 20 students
- Writing assignments once every two weeks at least
- Assignments vary from informal to research papers
- Recent Development:
- Encouraging further writing development through having students write approximately 15 pages in each Writing to Learn Class
- Encouraging the usage of the PSU Rubric in developing Writing to Learn assignment rubrics
- Having instructors submit their WL syllabuses for review of Writing to Learn Components
- Enhanced analysis of Writing to Learn Classes taught over the programs duration
- Began permitting a few upper division undergraduate classes to be taught as Writing to Learn
- Writing to Learn Programs Nationwide
- Similar versions of this program are implemented at other universities across the United States