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General Studies Writing Program

FULL-TIME TEACHING STAFF: Dan Rzicznek

Dan Rzicznek As a full-time member of GSW’s teaching staff my goals have been to assist students in developing their critical thinking skills, to provide them with the tools to transfer their thoughts into written argumentative essays, and to engage students as a community of writers. Helping students understand that their voices matter and can be heard is the first step in getting them to think critically about both their own writing and the work of other writers. In all the classes I have instructed, I’ve made it an unspoken, semester-long project for my students to challenge their own perceptions of what they can and can’t successfully write about. I’ve always felt that my students immediately warm-up to the idea that the whole class (teacher included) are writers who will be learning primarily from themselves and one another.