What is Writing Across the University?
Offered in conjunction with History of Art 282, WATU focuses on improving writing skills, such as argumentation, organization, and clear, concise writing, as well as addressing the conventions of art-historical writing. WATU is an opportunity for you to develop your writing skills through a process of draft review and one-on-one conferences with a trained writing instructor. WATU is open to all writers from first year to fourth year students, non-native speakers to advanced writers. WATU fulfills half of the School of Arts and Sciences writing requirement. Also welcome are those who have already completed their writing requirement but want to further refine their writing skills.

Requirements
For this course you will revise two papers: a 2 page formal analysis and an 18 page research paper (for WATU the research paper is extended from 15 to 18 pages). You must turn in a finished draft for comments and review. This draft must be your best effort, and be in standard paper format: typed, double-spaced, spell-checked, and properly cited. After I have read and commented upon your paper, we will arrange a one-on-one writing conference to discuss the paper. You will then revise the paper and turn in the final version.

Updated February 22, 1999