Writing at Dartmouth

Our first-year writing courses—WRIT 5 and WRIT 2-3—provide a foundation for the liberal arts by introducing students to critical writing. Critical writing is a practice of thinking by means of which ideas are discovered, examined, compared, evaluated, refined, and promoted. The Writing Program oversees the first-year seminar courses, which are taught in departments and programs throughout the College. Our first-year courses prepare students to engage fully with their intellectual work in every discipline.

Through the first-year writing courses, the College offers entering students a valuable opportunity to develop the thinking and writing abilities that characterize intellectual work in the academy and in educated public discourse.

History of Writing Instruction

For more than a century, writing instruction at Dartmouth College has both reflected and anticipated national trends in writing pedagogy.

History of Writing Support

Throughout its many incarnations, the aim of the Writing Center has been to provide peer-to-peer instruction that enhances Dartmouth students' intellectual work at every stage of their thinking, research, and composing processes.

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