This Minor in Writing Capstone Course gives you the space to synthesize your writing achievements and “cap off” those achievements with a substantial writing project of your choice that showcases your abilities and interests and engages a wider audience. This writing project will be housed on an electronic project site.

We will be doing a number of different kinds of writing this semester that will help you build to and support this writing project, including mini-assignments designed to help you brainstorm, draft, and gather other writing tools; informal reading responses and ideas-testing on Slack; and a variety of types of reflective writing.

This course directly builds on the shared vocabulary and concepts from Gateway. As you know from that course, and from your experience since, you’re an incredibly diverse group in terms of background, disciplines, and writerly interests. This course provides an opportunity to solidify the community you’ve been developing since the Gateway Course, learn from each other, and help each other create excellent, significant work that exceeds the standards you set for yourselves.

Course Requirements:

A substantial, research-based writing project, various small assignments designed to support and scaffold the writing of this project, and an electronic project site.

Intended Audience:

Minor in Writing Seniors

Class Format:

Instruction Mode: All instruction will be online and synchronous; We will also have one-to-one and small group meetings via google, zoom, or phone with the students, as well as scheduled small group and pair/trio work.

Learning Mode: Canvas, Slack, necessary technology for each student's individual project, meetings conducted via Zoom; students should have access to a camera and microphone.

Course Testing/Assessment: Capstone project and reflective materials.