Does anyone have practical writing and speaking strategies that can enhance learning?
What led to or prompted its establishment? The Campus Writing and Speaking Program (CWSP) emerged out of a long discussion on this campus regarding writing and speaking in our General Education Requirements (GERs). The GERs were established in the early 1990’s in response to a strong sense among faculty and students that our land-grant university needed to offer a general education to all students in order to provide a basis for and supplement a specialized education. The original writing and speaking requirement in the GERs stated that, in addition to two semesters of first-year composition and an advanced course, faculty across the university should encourage student learning by assigning writing in the majors, specifically two papers. Because this two-paper requirement was so ambiguous, a university task force was formed to study the situation and recommend a revision that would clarify it. After two years, the writing task force brought its recommendations to the university committ
