Georgia State’s First-Year Writing Program (FYWP) offers a wide range of opportunities for undergraduates in all fields of study and provides the highest level of instruction for students enrolled in 1000-2000 level courses in composition, rhetoric, literature and business writing. Guided by the Conference on College Composition and Communication’s “Principles for the Postsecondary Teaching of Writing,” Georgia State’s FYWP is committed to sound writing instruction, linguistic diversity, critical and professional literacies and the rhetorical power of writing.

We design curriculum, suggest textbooks and support instructors teaching FYWP courses. Our work is foundational not only to the English Department but to the university at large. Indeed, every student who begins a college career at Georgia State will take several of our courses. Over the three semesters, we offer approximately 256 first-year writing class sections and 28 introductory literature classes. Most students in these courses don’t major in English, so these courses may be the last they’ll take in English. Thus, our teaching offers many students the most intensive instruction they’ll receive during college in language theory, rhetoric and writing and literature.