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What Kinds of Assignments Do CWP Students Undertake?
Academic writing speaks to a particular audience, just as all writing should. How useful or meaningful a particular type of writing is depends on what audience you want to reach. -- Vanessa Callison-Burch, fourth-year Stanford student |
Although many assignments in CWP-designated PWR sections are directed to academic audiences, just as in standard PWR classes, CWP students also produce a wide variety of practical documents and presentations for community audiences. In PWR 1 sections with CWP designations, at least one major academic assignment is replaced by a community writing assignment. For example, CWP students in PWR 1 may research and write newspaper or newsletter articles, web pages, brochures, fact sheets, training manuals, teaching materials, or grant proposals. CWP students in PWR 2 courses may produce, in addition to written documents, spoken, film, or multimedia projects on behalf of the community agencies with which they work, and up to half of their coursework may be community-based. Most community projects in PWR 1 and all such projects in PWR 2 require primary, or field, research in addition to secondary, or library, research. Some CWP projects are individually accomplished; many are undertaken collaboratively with peers.
In academic writing, the audience reads your paper because they have to or are deeply interested. This is not necessarily the case with community writing, where your aim may be to attract a person's attention or persuade someone once you do have the precious few minutes of his or her attention . --Anh Bui, fourth-year Stanford student |
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