Reintroduction to Writing

3 Credits.

Reintroduction to Writing, JHU’s first-year writing course, steps beyond the writing skills necessary to get to college: our shared project is to help you learn how to write for the rest of your life. We approach writing as an adaptable process of inquiry and action, as deeply informed by reading, and as reflective, embodied, and always emerging practice. In this course, we will rethink writing in ways that will help you throughout college, your professional career, personal life, and civic responsibilities in a democracy. Toward that end, this course teaches you to become an agile, curious, creative, and resilient writer. You will read and write academic texts; rhetorically analyze a wide variety of sources, including for the conventions of diverse genres; and write across genres, developing skill and precision in your writing, as well as fluency across contexts, audiences, and media. Topics vary; please see the specific semester and section for current offerings. In fall semesters (only), we offer sections of Reintro reserved for students at the sophomore level and above. All other sections are reserved for first-years. Please see "Special Notes" under each section and refer to the section-level information for applicable Foundational Abilities when registering.