Teaching Guidelines

Our first-year writing courses are designed to welcome students into the ongoing conversation of scholarship. These courses - which include Writing 2-3, Writing 5, and the First-Year Seminar - provide Dartmouth students an environment where they can practice the reading, thinking, writing, and speaking that will shape their intellectual lives.

Teaching Writing in the First Year

Information on teaching goals, methodology, and course design.

Expectations for Teaching Writing 2-3

Writing 2-3 has an especially diverse population who bring with them an array of writing abilities and writing challenges

Expectations for Teaching Writing 5

Writing 5 is, for most Dartmouth students, the first exposure to the demands of college writing.

Expectations for Teaching First-Year Seminar

Although the seminars are designed around disciplinary or interdisciplinary content, their focus is writing.