You may be wondering...
- Will I be able to handle college writing?
- How different is writing at UW from high school or community college?
- Will professors expect me to know how to do research already? What kind of feedback will they give?
- Where do I find resources? Where is everything on campus and in Seattle?
- How will writing impact my future?
If you have any of these questions, this course will help you figure out how writing actually works at UW. You'll begin Autumn quarter knowing how to navigate campus, how to ask for help, and how to approach your first UW writing assignment, skills you'll need while you're at UW and when you embark on your future beyond college.
Writing is telling stories, and stories are how we come to know ourselves, others, our past, and our sense of belonging. Stories are also how we can change how and what we know. By the time you get to college, you've usually developed the stories you tell (or have been told) about yourself and your ability as a writer: stories of success, fear, pride, confidence or lack of confidence, procrastination, etc. Increasingly, these stories also include your relationship to AI. These stories can be powerful; they can shape how you perceive yourself as a writer and your attitudes about writing.
In this course, we will pause to examine these stories to reflect on your writing life so far, and we'll do so while thinking about how being at UW gives you a chance to adjust your relationship to writing while orienting yourself to campus and your new home. Our goal is to help you build on and adapt your writing experiences to become a more successful writer, reader, researcher, and learner at UW. Along the way, you'll reflect on how AI is shaping the ways we write. We'll use our engagement with AI to reflect critically on who we are as writers, how we write, and how we can grow in ethical, creative, and intentional ways.
Learn more about your instructors:
Megan Butler, https://english.washington.edu/people/megan-butler
Emily George, https://english.washington.edu/people/emily-george
Erin Gilbert, https://english.washington.edu/people/erin-gilbert
Matthew Hitchman, https://english.washington.edu/people/matthew-k-hitchman
