General Studies Writing Program

Students of GSW laptop sections can look forward any of the following activities in the classroom:

• In-class time devoted to writing.
• Networked writing and collaborated writing.
• Peer-review sessions with student writing.
• Ease of connection to common digital spaces like class blogs, BlackBoard, etc.
• Interactive writing exercises.
• Grammar instruction.
• Interactive use of eTextbooks.
• Hands-on online research.
• Hands-on instruction with research methods and the use of electronic databases like the library, EBSCO, etc.
• Connection to other online databases to further research options.

In addition to these activities, students of laptop sections enjoy many benefits:

• Saving drafts to their laptop computers.
• Connecting to a wireless Internet easily.
• Saving research to their laptop computers.
• Accessing and cross-referencing other class notes.