Writing classes at Shippensburg University provide you with the practical writing and critical thinking skills you will need to be successful in your college courses and beyond. Good writing requires a great deal more than formal mechanics and proper formatting, though these skills are essential. Writing professors at Shippensburg emphasize the importance of research, rhetorical inquiry and critical analysis as they prepare students to be effective writers.
Student writing begins with the Writing Intensive First-Year Seminar in the English Department. The purpose of Writing Intensive First-Year Seminar (WIFYS) is to introduce you to the critical writing and research skills you will need to be a successful writer in college, as well as your professional life.
More career opportunities are opening for college and university graduates who can read and write well. Because success in most professions demands effective thinking, the study of English is excellent preparation for careers in law, medicine, education, technical writing, journalism, theology, personnel, marketing, management, administration, publishing, and writing. Few majors prepare you so well for a variety of careers as English does.
