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Welcome to the Composition Program website!

Here you can find helpful information about the University writing requirement, composition program policies, and writing resources across campus.

Faculty in the Composition Program teach lower- and upper-division writing to over 7000 students per year across over 100 classrooms per term. Our foundational 100-level writing courses are required of all UO students, taught by award-winning teachers comprised of both graduate employees (GEs) who have completed an intensive year-long training and experienced instructors from writing-related fields.

In the Composition Program, we support student learning through these Program-wide learning outcomes:

Writing in Context
Develop arguments in multiple genres that are relevant to students and to the audiences to
which they’re addressed.

Research and Inquiry
Engage with primary, scholarly, and public sources to enrich a process of inquiry and inform
students’ writing.

Analysis
Analyze how writers reflect, challenge, and transform their discourse communities, including in
their relationship to formal and stylistic conventions.

Agency and Positionality
Recognize lived experience as a source of authority in writing, reading, and discourse.

Feedback and Revision
Give and receive constructive feedback; revise based on feedback, further research, and
reflection.

Transferring Skills
Apply the processes and strategies of writing to engage with new contexts and communities in
the University of Oregon and beyond it.

Contact Us

For general questions related to the policies and procedures of the Composition Program, please email the Directors of Composition at uocompdirectors@uoregon.edu

Emily Simnitt

Interim Director of Composition

541-346-3517

esimnitt@uoregon.edu

Melissa Bowers

Manager of Administrative Services

541-346-1506

bowersm@uoregon.edu

Susan Meyers

Executive Support Specialist

541-346-1516

susani@uorgon.edu

Additional Links:

Contact information for Graduate Employees in the Composition Program

Contact information for Instructors in the Composition Program