Student Learning Objectives

In this RWLO students will learn to appreciate the importance and relevance of the writing process (i.e. draft, edit, revise, etc.) when exposed to authentic drafts and examples of well-known and recognized authors' works. Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:

• explain the importance of stages in the writing process by comparing the ambiguities, nuances, complexities, the author’s use of words, phrases and stylistic devices in several drafts of a well known literary work to those in the final product; and
   
• utilize primary sources to describe how editing and revising enhance and improve writing.

 

(NOTE: the notebooks have been digitally archived by the Library of Congress
 and can be located in the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection)