Collaborating
Writing is a social act. Good writing is never produced in isolation. Writers consider their audience and purpose each time they begin a project. Our unique, collaborative environment gives you opportunities to share your work with a range of audiences: instructors, writing mentors, and peers.
Mastering technology
You will not compose traditional academic essays in the Writers' Studio. Rather, you will work on multimodal projects that incorporate images, videos, hyperlinks, infographics, and other forms of new media to reflect the kind of composing people do in the real world today.
In our asynchronous online courses, you will communicate and work in multiple digital learning spaces, such as Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Google Sites, InScribe, and Zoom. You will read and complete quizzes in our course eBook. Most of your course interaction with your instructor, writing mentors, and peers will take place via Canvas.
A curriculum grounded in research and practice
The guiding frameworks for ASU's Writers' Studio are the Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA) Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition, guidelines that have grown out of practice, theory and a large body of research from composition teachers nationally; and the WPA Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing, which identifies eight habits of mind that promote success in college and beyond: curiosity, openness, engagement, creativity, persistence, responsibility, flexibility and metacognition.