Supplemental Materials for Students

Supplemental Materials for Students Interested in Understanding the structure and customs of LCC's writing classes.

Because LCC's writing courses have a strong workshop component, Attendance is crucial for your success. Indeed, you may find the Atmosphere and Expectations in a writing classroom different from classes in other subject areas you are taking or have taken here at LCC or another school. Here's one example: you are expected to thoroughly and Critically Read and digest texts before class so that you can actively engage in discussion and other classroom activities, a kind of reading that requires you go beyond skimming for information or main ideas and move into analysis and inference. Additionally, you are expected to participate in Peer Writing Workshops to help your classmates rethink and Revise, as you will also do.

So, click on the links above and read more about the classroom expectations and conventions in our writing courses. To better help you understand the goals of our general education requirements at LCC, these linked documents also call out the relationship to the skill sets described in LCC's Core Learning Outcomes (CLOs). You can also hear fellow students talk about our CLOs, or read what LCC writing instructor Sarah Lushia has to say about the value of CLOs.

If you have questions about any of this content, feel free to ask your instructor, or, you can contact Gina Szabady, the assistant composition coordinator, or Kate Sullivan, the interim composition coordinator.