FYS@Wes is a database and collective informed by contemporary scholarship and the lived experiences of the Wes community. FYS @Wes is meant to inspire just and innovative teaching practices for writing-intensive First-Year Seminars taught at Wesleyan University.
Navigating the Site
The database is organized by topic through the use of tabs. We encourage you to begin with the “Fundamentals of Writing Instruction” page.
You can then explore the “First-Year Seminars” page and “Anti-Racist Writing Pedagogy” page before looking through the different topics and exercises in the “Database” drop down menu. We have also included a bibliography if you want to read more about writing and pedagogy as well as the larger field of composition and rhetoric. We also have a blog where Wesleyan students share their experiences with First-Year seminars and writing more generally. So, too, will you read narratives by Wes faculty who have decided to contribute to this database. We hope that as you explore the site, you share the tools and insights that have worked well for you!
Join Us!
Ultimately, we hope you will join us in our work to make writing in first-year seminars innovative, exciting, and transformative for our incredible student population at Wesleyan. Please reach out to join the collective either by drafting a blog post, prompting students from your FYS to blog, developing activities or exercises to share, or by sending resources for us to add to our bibliography.