Writing Across the Curriculum

FOR STUDENTS

     Faculty who teach writing at USM are committed to helping you develop excellent writing skills.  They want you to have skill and confidence in composing and revising presentations and arguments, in constructing effective sentences and paragraphs, in making appropriate and effective word choices, and in using correct punctuation and mechanics. 

     Faculty are also committed to improving your ability to formulate original ideas through the writing process.  As such, writing is a tool for improving learning and fostering critical thinking and analysis.

     The integration of writing throughout the curriculum--in fields as diverse as Philosophy, Environmental Science and Policy, and Sociology—reveal how central effective writing skills are in a variety of professional, personal, and civic contexts.  USM’s goal is to provide you with the skills to write and communicate effectively in an array of contexts outside of academia, though faculty also want you to write excellent academic papers.

This page was last updated on January 12, 2007.