Writing Program
The Writing Program offers a range of courses and other academic support not only to CASL students but also to undergraduate and graduate students across the university.
Among other projects and initiatives, the Writing Program oversees the UM-Dearborn Writing Center, the campus Writing Awards competition, and the Composition Placement Examination. One important aspect of the Program’s work is helping to bring together faculty from across the disciplines to share scholarship and innovative teaching approaches for improving students’ abilities with written communication and academic research.
First-year writing courses at UM-Dearborn provide a basis not only for upper-level writing classes but also for the writing students will do in other courses. Our courses therefore support students as they learn to write effectively, think critically, and develop rhetorical awareness about print, visual, and digital texts.
In our teaching, Writing Program faculty stress inquiry-based research, close reading, critical reflection, revision, collaboration, and active learning. Our courses include the first-year composition sequence and intermediate courses focused on creative and expository writing and writing in professional settings.
The Writing Program values writing as a process of producing knowledge and communicating ideas to academic, civic, workplace, and transnational audiences. Because writing well involves a complex set of practices, the Writing Program emphasizes college writing as a process that a student develops throughout her or his college career.
The Writing Program office is located in 3018CB. For more information, contact:
Lisa Ballard
Administrative Assistant
[email protected]
313-593-5238