First Year Writing Workshop

The First Year Writing Workshop is a pre-semester, on-campus workshop for incoming UW-Stout students whose English Placement Test score falls between 330 and 359. Students at this range are already demonstrating progressing abilities in college-level writing — and with a focused, three-day push across the shared target areas of First-Year Composition, they can place directly into ENGL 101.

Designed and taught by UW-Stout First-Year Composition faculty, the workshop mirrors the same six target areas you'll meet in ENGL 090, ENGL 101, and ENGL 102: Rhetoric, Multimodality, Process, Development, Organization, and Usage. Through short instruction, group practice, and individual feedback on your own writing, you'll arrive in your fall semester already fluent in how Stout instructors talk about college writing.

What will you gain?

• Demonstrate progressing abilities across the six target areas of First-Year Composition: Rhetoric, Multimodality, Process, Development, Organization, and Usage.
• Practice drafting, revising, and editing a college-level essay with feedback from UW-Stout faculty before the semester begins.
• Work with multimodal sources — text, image, audio, and digital tools — the way ENGL 101 and your other Stout classes will expect.
• Build the habits and shared vocabulary you'll use throughout the ENGL 090 → 101 → 102 sequence.

• Earn direct placement into ENGL 101 (Composition I) with full attendance and participation — skipping ENGL 090 and saving $xx in tuition.