First-Year Writing @ Clayton State University

Welcome!We hope that your first-year writing courses plant seeds for your growth as writers and awaken you to the possibilities of writing.  In our courses, you'll practice an array of writing processes and strategies, read and write a variety of genres, analyze and use various argumentative strategies, and develop effective rhetorical skills.

Your instructors in all of these first-year-writing courses are knowledgeable teachers and writers who hold  graduate degrees in English, and many have years of teaching experience. You will find your particular instructors course policies in the course syllabus, available on your instructors webpage, on the Department of English website under Faculty. If you have questions or concerns about your English 1101 or 1102 class, please see your instructor during office hours (or e-mail to make an appointment). You may also contact Dr. Mary R. Lamb, Director of First-Year Writing, in G-110E Arts and Sciences Bldg., or via e-mail to marylamb@clayton.edu, or by phone, 678-466-4706.

First-Year Writing Students and Instructors

Lizcha Bennet has an essay, written for Dr. Lemaster's English 1101, published in "This I Believe," Sept. 1, 2010, available at http://thisibelieve.org/essay/81588.

Margaret Fletcher, Instructor, received a grant covering registration for contingent faculty that enabled her to attend the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Atlanta, April 2011.

Barbara Fortier has her essay, "East China Sea," first written in Dr. Lamb's English 1101, published in the Cygnet, Spring 2010.

Anna King, Instructor, published "'And the Women of Georgia Ought to Do It': Helen Dortch Longstreet and the Conservation Battle for Tallulah Falls, 1912-13," in the Unrorean literary magazine.

Kate Sweeney, Instructor, published Ode to Not Falling in Oxford Americans Best of the South issue, Volume 73, 2011. 102-103.

Andrew White has an essay, written for Dr. Lemaster's English 1101, published in "This I Believe," Sept. 1, 2010, available at http://thisibelieve.org/essay/81829.

Important Sring 2012 Dates

January 9                             Classes Begin

Feb. 14-28                          Mid-term Grade Submission

Feb. 17                               Students' FYW Websites Due

March 2                              Midterm (last day to drop with a W; see Registrar for details)

March 3-10                         Spring Break

April 20                               1102 E-Portfolios Due   

April  30                              Last Class

May 1-7                              Final Exams

May 9, 9 a.m.                      Final Grades and Portfolio Assessment Due