Class of 2015
First Year Writing Program
In your first year at Washington College you will take ENG 101: Literature and Composition and GRW 101: Global Perspectives: Research and Writing Seminar, the two required first year writing courses (one each semester). Each course plays a distinct and critical role in helping you to become a capable and successful college student. In these courses you will acquire and polish reading, writing, research and presentation skills that you will rely on throughout your college education.
First year students interested in creative writing may also choose to take ENG 103: Introduction to Creative Writing. This workshop course introduces the freshman writer to the forms of creative writing—specifically, poetry and fiction—as practiced by the students themselves using classic and contemporary literature as models for their own efforts.
The Writing Center is a resource available to students in these courses—and in all courses. At the Writing Center, full-time writing instructors and experienced peer writing consultants offer individual conferences and workshops that foster a writer's objectivity, sense of audience, and critical thinking—habits of the mind best cultivated through thoughtful interaction between reader and writer.