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First-year writing courses at Dartmouth are specifically designed to help students improve their writing skills through rigorous and demanding course work. Writing 2-3, Writing 5, and Humanities 1 share many common elements that teach students how to be better writers; however, there are several differences between these courses. Read below for more information.
Writing 2-3 is designed for those students seeking to achieve excellence in writing through two terms of serious intellectual engagement and intensive academic support. Writing 2-3 students receive this support from committed faculty and graduate student tutors trained in writing pedagogy. By committing themselves to a rigorous plan of reading, writing, discussing, researching, conferring, and rewriting, students learn to craft clear, compelling academic arguments and prepare themselves for their future college writing.
Please note: Because enrollment is limited, a preference for Writing 2-3 cannot always be honored, but students may request to be put on a wait list for the course.
This section of Writing 2-3 has all of the features of the course described immediately above, but it is exclusively for international students. Importantly, this is not an ESL grammar course. It is a course for students who might have conducted all or part of their schooling in English or who speak English fluently but have not had the opportunity to write extensively in English and desire a more gradual immersion into academic writing in the context of US higher education.
Writing 5 introduces Dartmouth students to critical writing and treats writing not primarily as an instrument for communication but as a practice, a practice of thinking, by means of which ideas are discovered, examined, compared, evaluated, refined, and promoted. Each section of Writing 5 organizes its writing assignments around challenging readings chosen by the instructor. The texts for the class also include student writing.