Local History, Local Complexities: The First-Year Writing Curriculum at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Composition Forum
Abstract
This profile describes a new WPA’s choice to work incrementally to assess an inherited, fledgling First-Year Writing curriculum at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and change it over a three-year period with continual stakeholder involvement. The methods used for assessment were two rounds of instructor surveys and three rounds of direct assessment of student writing samples, motivated in part by the university’s reaccreditation review. The resulting curriculum’s main areas of focus are academic writing techniques, argument structure, and research-based writing.
Publication Date
Spring 2013
Recommended Citation
Ratliff, C. (2013). Local history, local complexities: The first-year writing curriculum at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Composition Forum, 27.