First-Year Writing Courses

First-Year Writing Courses (3-4 credits)

One First-Year Writing course is required. WRDS 1104 includes the same face-to-face content as WRDS 1103, but also includes an online writing studio that provides students with additional opportunities to develop skills.

Your Writing Placement is indicated on your Advising Transcript, this video will show you how to find your writing placement. It is ideal to take your First-Year Writing Course within your first two semesters at Charlotte.

• WRDS 1103 – Writing and Inquiry in Academic Contexts I and II (3) – Students write extensively as they explore literacy and writing. They engage critically with the opinions and voices of others while developing an extended inquiry project that integrates materials from varied sources and includes writing in multiple genres. Students write, revise, edit, and reflect on their writing with the support of the teacher and peers. Students also immerse themselves in a conversation about a topic through reading, questioning, and process writing. Students learn to distinguish rhetorical contexts, practice different conventions, and develop positions in relation to research. They also adopt digital technologies to network, compose, and/or critique and disseminate their work.
• WRDS 1104 – Writing and Inquiry in Academic Contexts I and II with Studio (4) – In this hybrid course, students learn to analyze and compose a variety of texts and use a range of technologies, adapting language and style for particular audiences, contexts, and purposes. They develop flexible composing strategies; locate and evaluate primary and secondary research; and deepen engagement with source material, their own ideas, and the ideas of others in order to strengthen claims and solidify logical arguments.

You can find additional information about all General Education requirements in the catalog,