WI Course Criteria
Writing Intensive (WI) courses at PVCC will:
- Be capped at a maximum of 24 students
- Require a total of 4000 words (or 20 pages), including both graded and ungraded writing activities
- Include formal and informal writing activities distributed throughout the semester and not concentrated at the end
- Include writing-to-learn and writing process activities
- Require student revision and resubmission of at least one writing assignment
- Include feedback from the instructor and from peers for at least one writing assignment that is written or given as part of an instructor/student conference and, for peers, during a work shopping session
- Refer students to the PVCC Writing Center as needed
- Devote some class time to writing instruction
- Evaluate formal writing assignments using the PVCC Writing Rubric
- Require that students receiving below a "C" on a formal writing assignment in a writing intensive course work with a tutor in the writing center before re-submission of revised paper
- Structure grading such that writing assignments account for at least 30% of the final grade
- Have a syllabus statement that communicates the writing intensive requirement that a student must earn a passing grade in the course in order for it to meet program requirements for graduation
