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Freshman Writing Program

Mission Statement of the Freshman Writing Program

The mission of the Drexel University Freshman Writing Program is to teach students how to write effectively, because effective writers will be superior students and successful professionals.

Effective writing is informative, substantial, clear, and forceful.

We teach students how to:

 

  • Think critically
  • Read actively
  • Conduct research
  • Organize writing
  • Draft effective paragraphs
  • Revise writing
  • Edit writing
  • Cite Sources
The Goals of The Drexel University Freshman Writing Program

The Drexel University Freshman Writing Program has two main goals:

  1. We are committed to helping students succeed in all of the courses they will take at Drexel, by teaching them the writing skills they will need to complete those courses successfully.
  2. We are committed to helping prepare students for the work they will do after they graduate, by teaching them the essential writing skills they will need to succeed in their careers.


    3. To achieve these goals, we teach students how to

    1. Reflect upon a topic, specifically how to assess audience and establish purpose and how to use a variety of invention strategies productively;
    2. Research a topic, specifically how to access, evaluate, summarize, paraphrase, and use effectively information from the Internet and from books and journals in the library;
    3. Plan, structure, outline expository, persuasive, and analytical essays and reports;
    4. Draft effective introductions, body paragraphs, and conclusions for expository, persuasive, and analytical essays and reports;
    5. Revise writing to improve content, structure, style, and cohesion;
    6. Edit writing to ensure correct grammar, sentence structure, spelling, diction, punctuation, mechanics;
    7. Cite sources accurately, using a recognized and accepted system;
    8. Think critically;
    9. Read actively.

     
 
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