A recent opinion article from a news source out of Cleveland claimed just that: “first-year college writing courses matter.”
The author went on to share the benefits college students gain from their first-year writing courses saying that, “good things happen in First-Year Writing classes. And none of them involves a red pen.”
“Through the give-and-take of group work, the active participation in class discussion, and the discipline of engaging in reflective, sustained thought about significant ideas, life lessons come. By December, the students are not who they are in August.”
Now that many of you have a few weeks of your first-year college writing course under your belts, what do you think?