What is the philosophy for teaching writing at UofL?
We are committed to teaching students to become more creative and critical writers and readers. Our writing courses are our opportunity to help students develop their writing as a way of thinking, learning, and communicating in ways that will enrich their lives in the University community and beyond. In our writing courses we want students to learn how to negotiate and write in unfamiliar writing situations. No set of writing courses could possibly predict the variety of writing challenges that students will encounter in college and in their daily lives. We want students to develop the ability to encounter a new writing situation, in or out of the classroom, and be able to think about it rhetorically in terms of audience, purpose, style and voice, persona and ethos, and so on, so they can figure out how to write effectively in that situation. Accomplishing this goal requires that students write and read in multiple genres and learn to think about writing and reading as rhetorical acts.
