At the core of a liberal arts education is the ability to communicate.  Like the liberal arts curriculum, composition classes at Drew prepare students for a future in which they will need to be flexible, creative, and able to respond to a multitude of challenges.  Composition trains students to think critically, respond creatively, and communicate with many different audiences ranging from the academic to the professional and the social.  Whether students who have taken our classes are sending email messages, posting to an on-line  newsgroup, writing college papers, or producing business reports and professional presentations, they will be able to adjust their writing style accordingly and speak to their particular audience through their writing.  Coupled with the  broad base of knowledge and the ability to make connections and think "outside the box" that come from a solid liberal arts education, Drew's composition classes prepare students for whatever career paths they select.  It is this broad base of knowledge and flexibility of application that makes a liberal arts education so valuable in our ever changing world, and it is through writing that our students learn to make the connections and develop the skills to make use of that education.  They begin to develop those writing skills in our composition classes and continue to develop them through their time at Drew--and beyond.

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