Writing 1

Contact Info

Follow the "Course Information" links (or consult FAQs) for details about Writing 1. If you have other questions, email writing1@artsci.wustl.edu.

Debra Rudder Lohe, PhD
Program Administrator
Washington University
Duncker 103
(314) 935-4899
Campus Box 1122
1 Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130

Chuck Sweetman, PhD
Assistant Director
Washington University
Duncker 204
(314) 935-8113
Campus Box 1122
1 Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130

Heidi Aronson Kolk, PhD
Dir. of Writing Courses
Washington University
Duncker 204
(314) 935-4411
Campus Box 1122
1 Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130

Announcements

Registration Information: Online registration is now closed for the spring. Any section changes must be made through the Writing 1 office, and all changes must be made before Thursday, January 17, 2008 (the drop/add deadline for Writing 1). For assistance, contact the Program Administrator.
Writing 1: Writing Culture
	Student Life Office, Journalism Laboratory, Eads Hall 1935. Photo courtesy of Washington University Libraries, Department of Special Collections.
Welcome to the Writing 1 web site, which is intended to serve as a resource for current and prospective students. On this site you can find information about Washington University’s writing requirement, learn more about the Writing 1 course, and view work by previous Writing 1 students. Although its course number is 100, Writing 1 is not an introduction to writing. It is a course that challenges students to become new and more thoughtful writers even as they develop existing strengths. It also prepares them to meet the demands of a new writing situation, and to work within the conventions of academic discourse. In fall of 2006, the course will take on a new emphasis, Writing Culture. That subtitle can denote a community of writers; it can also describe the act of writing about or imagining a culture. More subtly, it captures the sense that writing is bound up in cultural ideas, assumptions, and perspectives – that one’s culture impacts one’s writing and vice versa. All of these are ideas that Writing 1 asks students to consider. [More]

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