Writing in Your Courses at Baruch

Meechal Hoffman, Acting Director, Bernard L. Schwartz Communications Institute

As you progress through your undergraduate career at Baruch, you’ll encounter writing again and again. You’ll write for readers; you’ll read other writers’ work; and you’ll write to yourself to help you remember, learn, and think through problems.

But even though writing is so central to academic success, and you’ll have to do it nearly every day in one form or another, this course will very likely be your best opportunity to develop as a writer. Here, you won’t just receive and complete writing assignments. You’ll examine other writers’ work, uncovering their strategies and testing them in your own drafts. Your class will discuss writerly moves and explicitly practice making those moves together. You’ll revise regularly, to discover and explore your ideas, and then to reshape and refine them for your readers. So capitalize on this moment that might not come along again. Focus on your work in this class, certainly, but also keep one eye trained on the future—on all the writing you’ll do across all the classes to come, in all the disciplines you’ve not yet experienced.

To make the most of your deep training in writing this semester:

The Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute partners with faculty across the College’s three Schools to cultivate learning environments in which students become strategic, thoughtful communicators and creators. We develop and support Communication Intensive Courses, guide pedagogical reflection, and foster meaningful teaching and learning of written, oral, visual, and digital literacies in all disciplines.