The Study of Writing

 

The writing program is the core of the first-year experience at New England College. Writing courses are based in teaching of critical and analytical thinking through a process-oriented curriculum based on a hierarchy of learning. Students learn techniques for discovery and synthesis applicable to course materials across disciplines. Writing courses serve as the ongoing hands-on opportunity for students to develop as writers and thinkers through workshop and revision, peer review and presentation.

 

 

NEC students who have successfully completed the two-semester writing course sequence are prepared to effectively synthesize information, draw conclusions, evaluate a wide variety of written and visual texts, and formulate convincing arguments based on academic research.