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The liberal arts curriculum serves students and faculty alike by bridging disciplines and connecting concepts across academic divides. This site reflects the relationships CNU's faculty formulate through an interdisciplinary approach by positioning writing as a ubiquitous component of all coursework to create, for example, relationships between accounting and political science, computer science and psychology. Through a writing intensive curriculum students will understand that effective writers face multiple audiences for which multiple messages must be considered.
As determined by this university's Ad-Hoc Committee on the Writing Experience at CNU and well supported by agencies of higher learning, written communication is the cornerstone of a student's academic experience because "[w]riting--as a form of knowledge production, as a skill and as an ability--is vital to the liberal arts learning experience at Christopher Newport University."
Consider the following pages as an online resource databank consisting of pedagogical, instructional, and practical articles, as well as ideas, theories, methodologies, and assignments that will aid faculty in their respective quests to research and implement rhetorical processes and ideologies in the classroom and in writing assignments. Though varied in approach and discipline, one central message rings clear: written communication is a staged, recursive process that permits students to embrace course teachings and articulate ideas and concepts.
The materials originate from reputable, academic journals and universities around the nation. Currently few materials are original to CNU faculty, but those willing to share ideas, resources, and successful assignments are encouraged to submit materials in Word and WordPerfect format to the web administrator. For those documents submitted by CNU faculty prior to this site, see the Alice Randall Writing Center's resource page.
Connecting CNU faculty to each other and to colleagues from around the nation to facilitate electronic conversations about how to structure courses around the concept that writing is a recursive, complex process and one at the center of learning is this project's main goal. Academic professionals who see their work as a dynamic and evolving component seek to situate themselves within the professional discussions that probe and research new ideas and ideologies. These pages provide resources and opportunities to CNU faculty as they continue to achieve pedagogical excellence.
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