Sweetland Center for Writing Gateway to the Minor

The Sweetland Center for Writing at the University of Michigan offers a writing minor program for students interested in developing their skills related to disciplinary and professional writing. Students experiment with different genres of writing, some that they have never experienced before. For example, this semester I worked on creative fiction, a commentary piece, a photo essay, blogging, and creating this website! The Sweetland Center for Writing website lists the following goals for students who complete the minor in writing program:

Produce complex and well-supported arguments that matter in academic and non-academic contexts.
Explore different strategies for organizing, revising, and proofreading writing of varying lengths and genres.
Identify and implement rhetorical choices that meet the demands of specific genres, audiences, and rhetorical situations
Compose in a variety of modes, including a range of new media such as blogs, interactive maps, online magazines, etc.
Identify the expectations that characterize writing in their major, and use this knowledge to write effectively in a range of genres in that discipline.
Learn the language to describe writing processes, rhetorical choices, genre expectations, and disciplinary discourse to discuss writing-in-progress and writing development over time.
Collaborate with other writers to improve writing-in-progress.

Here is a link to the Sweetland Center for Writing website if you have any further questions!