Foundational Writing Program
The Foundational Writing Program is an essential part of everyone’s first year at FDU. Courses in Foundational Writing emphasize the skills you’ll need to succeed in any writing task during college and throughout your life. Beyond the first year, we offer a minor in Professional Writing that enhances any major.Learn About the Writing Minor
Good writing is among the top skills that employers look for, regardless of the field. It is also one of the most important skills for succeeding in college: the majority of your courses will assign you writing.
Our courses are designed to engage you as an active participant in academic and public discourses. We believe student writers have important things to say and we strive to put them in conversation with each other, with their instructors, and with published writers and thinkers. We’ll train you in rhetoric and argumentation, critical reading, evaluation of sources, and research strategies.
We understand writing as a process: you’ll learn to reflect on what you write and reshape and revise ideas through multiple drafts with feedback from your professor and peers.
The course sequence in Foundational Writing is the same on both New Jersey campuses:
- WRIT1000 Fundamentals of Writing
- WRIT1001 Intro to Composition
- WRIT1002 Rhetoric and Inquiry
- WRIT1003 Research and Argument
You’ll be placed into one of these levels based on your placement test results and work your way through the sequence. WRIT1000 and WRIT1001 count as free electives; WRIT1002 and WRIT1003 are general education requirements.
Students who would benefit from additional support in making connections between college-level reading and writing, crafting sound sentences, and developing cogent arguments will be supported in a few different ways. Reading and writing labs as well as individualized tutoring are offered at campus academic support centers.
The Writing Program offers select upper-level courses beyond the required sequence, including a full minor in Professional Writing to hone your skills and prepare you to excel in your career.