Writing Across the Curriculum

Writing is integral to the liberal arts curriculum at St. Norbert College. To write is to think, to learn, to discover, to create, to express. To write is to participate in the world – locally and globally.

Our writing-across-the-curriculum program is grounded in the following beliefs:

•   Writing facilitates effective learning.
•   Writing is a complex process involving creating, shaping, drafting, revising and editing.
•   Writing encompasses a variety of written forms and an awareness of diverse audiences.
•   Writing is most effectively taught in content-specific courses.

For more about the Writing Across the Curriculum program visit the Writing Across the Curriculum website.

                            Alumna Profile
                                                                        As a technical writer for the U.S. Bank trust division, Erin Nitka ’00 works with the training team to develop learner-focused training materials. She creates and maintains procedures, manuals, job aids and workflows for bank projects and technology tools, including e-learning tools for online training.

With a Master of Arts degree in literature from Marquette University, she also teaches English at Bryant and Stratton College in Milwaukee. There, she developed and taught an online literature course to help students appreciate 20th-century authors.

Faculty Perspective

“There’s a culture of scholarship among the English faculty that is pretty impressive. And it’s a good example of why the argument that teaching and scholarship are not complementary is wrong. They are.”

Michael Marsden
Dean Emeritus and Professor of English
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