Students in this practicum experience support paid staff members in creating Viterbos student newspaper, Lumen. Students working on the Lumen gain skills writing and editing hard news, features, sports reports, arts and culture reviews, and more. In addition, they grow their professional communication, collaboration, and community outreach abilities. May be repeated for credit.

Students in this practicum experience support paid staff members in creating Viterbos literary and arts journal, Touchstone. Students gain skills in reviewing submissions, editing, professional communication, collaboration, and community outreach. Prerequisite: 104 or C or higher in 105 or C or higher in 195. May be repeated for credit.

In this introduction to college writing, students work collaboratively, learning to read closely in order to summarize, analyze, and respond to a variety of texts. Students gain instruction in research methods and strategies of argumentation, as well as essentials of argumentative writing such as thesis, evidence, organization, and sentence-level effectiveness. By semesters end, students will write a short thesis-driven argument supported by library research. Grade of C required to pass the course. Placement into this course requires an ACT verbal score of 18-22. Prerequisite to ENGL 104.