Teaching English Literature Survey as a Writing Course--Online

This article advocates teaching online literature survey courses as writing courses. Focusing on writing-to-learn strategies and samples of student writing, the piece shows that such writing-centered pedagogy helps students to discover personal connections to the readings and, consequently, to find motivation for close critical reading as well as for formal academic writing. The article also contextualizes this pedagogy in the long debate in English studies on the place of literature in writing courses and, particularly, the place of writing in literature courses