Expository and College Writing | Courses | Faculty

The Expository and College Writing Program

Reading and writing are essential and inseparable features of all academic disciplines. The undergraduate core curriculum requires students to demonstrate that they can:

1. produce coherent texts within common college-level written forms;
2. revise and improve these texts;
3. research topics, develop arguments, and organize supporting details;
4. analyze and develop multiple perspectives, including historical, cultural, and discursive;
5. demonstrate proficiency in oral discourse;
6. evaluate their own and others’ written and oral presentations.

To achieve these goals, all Purchase students are required to complete LWR 1110/College Writing or its equivalent. Entering students may only be exempted from College Writing by achieving an AP score of 4 or higher. For additional information, refer to the College Writing AP policy for freshmen.

College Writing is taught in small sections in a seminar/discussion format that requires students to achieve proficiency in speaking and listening as well as writing and reading.

Expository Writing Courses

1. LWR 2052/Writing Memoir
2. LWR 2110/Advanced Critical Writing Workshop
3. LWR 2770/Art of the Essay
4. LWR 3300/Critical Literacy
5. LWR 3455/Teaching Good Prose
6. LWR 3730/Adapting Literature for Performance (reinstated Fall 2009)
7. LWR 3785/The Personal Essay

Writing courses (including College Writing) are also available through the School of Liberal Studies & Continuing Education.

Updated July 10, 2011