FYW Program
 Overview
Why a Shared Text?
Writing Committee Mission
Department of English

ENGL 1101 and 1102
General Policies
Lexicon
In-Class Writing Assessment
Out-of-Class Writing Assessment
ENGL 1101 - ENGL 1102
 Student Resources
The Writing Center
Library Workshops
Regent's Exam Info
MLA Citation on the Web
Grade Appeal Form
 Scholarly Resources
Chronicle of Higher Education
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The Director of First-Year Writing is Prof. Brandy Robinson (brobinso@westga.edu).
In-Class Essay

  • In order for an in-class essay to be presented in a form supported by the department, essay prompts must not be given or posted via the web prior to the essay date.  Allowing students to prepare outlines or theses beforehand undermines the goal of the in-class essay as a measure of extemporaneous writing skills.
  • Since our program is a text-based writing program, prompts should, like out-of-class essay prompts, generate text-based responses to previously assigned texts.  Discussion: Although Regents’ topics have been used in the past as in-class prompts, these topics generally encourage personal response essays, not text-based writing, and can cause an awkward transition in an otherwise text-based course.


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Department of English and Philosophy
1601 Maple Street, Carrollton, Georgia 30118
Phone: (678) 839-6512 - Fax: (678) 839-4849
Email: engdept@westga.edu

Last updated 09-23-2005 -- Email Susan Holland with problems or questions about the site.