by Austin Becker As the semester comes to an end, I find myself reflecting on the experiences I’ve had over the past few months in the WIP Program. I realize that I have come a long way in this program, but so have some of the students in the two classes that I served as a…
by Trevor Ramsey The Writing Intensive Program at UGA provides a service to students that I took for granted due to my academic experiences. By giving students explicit training in writing and providing them with low stakes assignments, they learn not only about writing, but also the specific conventions in their respective fields of study. Including…
by Lane Smith As an undergraduate, I felt that many writing assignments were not fully developed as a teaching tool. I mean that often, after I wrote a paper and submitted it for a grade, I never received helpful and meaningful feedback or sometimes not at all. The kind of feedback I received was both vague…