UMKC Writing Intensive Courses

Proposals for Writing Intensive Courses rely on UMKC policy and Writing Intensive Courses Guidelines, are submitted via CourseLeaf, and include the following questions specific to WI courses:

Briefly explain how your course emphasizes and teaches writing as a recursive process that includes activities such as invention strategies, prewriting, analytical reading and re-reading, reflective assignments, submission of one or more preliminary drafts for instructor response, peer response, revision of content, form, mechanics and style, leading to a final draft.
Briefly explain how much class time is devoted to and the types of activities used for helping students complete writing assignments. Activities might include discussion of assignments and evaluation criteria, analysis and discussion of sample student papers and instruction about how to write a particular kind of paper or solve a common writing problem.
Briefly explain how much writing students will do in this course. The total word count of student writing throughout the course will vary according to discipline and course design, but a recommended estimate based on past WI courses would be 5,000 to 10,000 words total of meaningful writing that facilitates learning and growth as a writer. The goal is that students write often and a lot, focusing on process as much as product, which is reflected in the distribution of course points.

Faculty or staff requiring access to CourseLeaf should send their request to email the UMKC Catalog team.