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A winner of the Brotman award for instructional excellence, the University of Washington Interdisciplinary Writing Program offers expository writing courses linked with lecture courses in various disciplines.
These writing courses are designed to help students improve their writing skills while further exploring ideas and materials assigned in the lecture courses.
Assignments in a writing link always draw on materials from the accompanying lecture course, and often include drafts of papers submitted in the lecture course.
Most students find that pairing a writing course with a lecture course enhances their learning in both.
Writing links involve frequent individual conferences with writing instructors to discuss drafts of papers. Conferences offer students an opportunity to learn to read their own drafts more critically and to revise them more effectively.
Writing links can be used to satisfy either the Univeristy's 5-credit English "Composition" requirement, or half of the 10-credit "Additional Writing" requirement for undergraduates. Students can take up to 15-credits in writing links, provided that each link acompanies a different lecture course.
Writing links meet for three hours a week and are limited to twenty students, amongst the lowest at the University of Washington.
Section letters indicate the specific course links (e.g. ENGL 198A might be linked with ANTH 202 while ENGL 198C & D are linked with HIST 111).
