Overview of the FYWP

As part of the three-tiered writing component of the General Education Curriculum, first-year writing courses emphasize ways that writing is a primary element of active, creative learning in literate cultures. These courses provide students with opportunities to practice and reflect critically upon various processes of composing, forms of discourse, and methods of problem-solving, inquiry, and judgment. Further, first-year writing courses provide students with opportunities to engage with others' ideas and to reflect on the institutional and cultural contexts that both constrain and enable meaningful communication with others.

The First-Year Writing Program (or FYWP) is part of the English Department and oversees the implementation of the many variations of English 110, the University's required writing class for first-year students.

Course Descriptions
FYWP & OSU's writing curriculum
Placement into 110