Advanced Writing Requirement Workshop will be offered for the first time this coming fall and again this coming spring. It will be team taught by a number of faculty. The course will initially be capped at 18 students but may go as high as 30 students, depending on demand.
Primary responsibility for AWR supervision would remain with the faculty member you choose to supervise your writing requirement. This Workshop only supplements that guidance and covers basic writing and research skills that AWR supervisors generally do not cover.
Students cannot enroll themselves; they must apply for a seat in the course. All students should have a faculty supervisor for their AWR before the first class meeting (in the second week of classes). All students who do not have a faculty supervisor by the second class meeting (in the third week of class) will be dropped from the course so students on the wait list with supervisors can register. Students will be enrolled in the course according to the following criteria.
1. Highest priority is given to students who are in their last or next-to-last semester, who have yet to complete their AWR, and who think they could use help with their basic writing skills before graduation.
2. High priority is given to students in their second-year (FT) or third-year (PT) who have a referral from a professor or the writing center and who are currently enrolled in an Independent Study or course through which they plan to complete their Advanced Writing Requirement. High priority will also be given to students who self-identify as having difficulty with writing.
3. Lower priority will be given to students who are working on their AWR but do not evidence difficulty with the mechanics of writing or research, whether or not they have a referral from a professor.
4. Lowest priority will be given to students who are not working on their AWR but need a one credit course for their schedule. Students in this category will only be added if there are fewer than 5 students in categories 1-3 already enrolled on the first day the course meets (in the second week of class).
The class will not meet during the first week of a semester so students have time to get a referral or make a decision about whether this is something they want to do along with their AWR. That class session will be made up later in the semester with an individual research session with a librarian.
Students will submit at least a one-paragraph summary each week describing the progress they've made since the previous week. Those paragraphs will be checked for both content and writing. To pass the course, students must be writing at a C+ level by the end of the semester. Progress will be reported to the students' faculty supervisors. This Workshop is not meant to take the place of regular meetings with your AWR faculty supervisor.
If you would like to apply for this course, please send an e-mail to me at tmcgaugh@tourolaw.edu.
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