Policy

Faculty Associates and Teaching Assistants who wish to propose texts for Writing Programs Courses must adhere to the following procedure:

Faculty Associates and Teaching Assistants with at least two semesters of teaching experience at ASU, are free to submit a brief proposal etailing the curriculum and text for the course(s) they will be teaching. (Use the curriculum proposal form.) The proposal packet must include the following:

• Bibliographic information and ISBN of proposed text

Standard Policies (to be included in all syllabi)

Writing Programs Mission Statement

Writing Programs Course Goals

Writing Programs Teacher's Manual

Writing Programs Guide

This is a list of commonly used textbooks in Writing Programs. Faculty Associates and Teaching Assistants/Associates who have either more than three (3) years teaching experience at ASU in Writing Programs courses, or nine (9) or more graduate-level hours of rhetoric/composition courses (including the TA Seminar) may choose their own textbooks. Please note that it is Writing Programs policy that all classes use a rhetoric; you can select a separate reader, or use a rhetoric/reader. All textbooks must meet the goals and objectives of the Writing Programs.

Writing Programs at ASU supports the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) and Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA) outcomes statement for composition students.

Our mission is to introduce students to the importance of writing in the work of the university and to develop their critical reading, thinking and writing skills so that they can successfully participate in that work. Writing is intellectual work, and the demands of writing within the university community include the need to:

• synthesize and analyze multiple points of view
• articulate and support one's own position regarding various issues
• adjust writing to multiple audiences, purposes, and conventions