The Program is devoted to its audience, the students of Defiance College. As composition instructors, we are concerned on the most fundamental level with the full development of analytical thinking and writing.
Most first-year Defiance College students take AH 110 (Writing the Self) in the Fall and AH 120 (Writing the World) in the Spring. These courses are sequenced for skill development, which is to say that students practice the same skills in both courses . . . but with the expectation that AH 120 work will show much deeper critical thinking, reading, and writing than work in AH 110. See the Philosophy page to get a fuller sense of the principles that help us help students.
The Composition Program publishes an online web magazine, The PaperWad, where the best student writing is published in the spring.
The Compositon Program Workshop each August brings the program's instructors, Director of the First-Year Experience, and Pilgrim Library and Learning Commons personnel together to develop learning strategies for the incoming first-year class.
~~Click here for photos of the 2010 workshop~~
