Cal Poly’s Office of Writing and Learning Initiatives recently changed the options available for students to fulfill the Graduation Writing Requirement (GWR) — a CSU-mandated writing program that students must complete in order to graduate.
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Class sizes affect writing skills
Laura Pezzini lpezzini@mustangdaily.net It’s the first day of the quarter and as students sit in the middle of a lecture hall filled with up to 180 others, the English professor announces that all tests, which have previously been essay exams, will now be conducted solely on scantrons, due to class size. While most students are […]
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Class sizes increase, writing practice decrease
English department budget cuts have led to a 400 percent increase in class size, and an almost 100 percent decrease in writing in some courses. Some English course sections have increased from 30 to 120 students, which makes formal writing assignments impossible, department chair Kathryn Rummell said. It changes the curriculum to a point where […]
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Writing intensive classes fall short
Writing intensive General Education classes at Cal Poly are, many times, not requiring students to write a single word.