WID (Writing in the Disciplines - University Writing) is for the ACE Program at Luiss. This intensive course aims to equip students with the theoretical and practical competencies necessary to produce academic writing in a professional and business context, which is research-based, concise, well-organized, as well as grammatically and orthographically accurate, following the A.P.A formatting style. 

 Course objectives are developed by engaging in interactive, team, and self-study activities which enable students to gain confidence in different writing genres (reflection paragraphs, essays, recaps, and a researched business analysis paper). The research project focuses on critically analyzing and writing about a publicly traded company by combining popular, trade, and academically based sources. 

The course also provides students with the fundamentals of formal academic discourse in the form of a final presentation of research findings. 

 Activities include in-class discussions of readings, slides, and exercises, self-study quizzes, as well as engaging with the research process to complete a team Company Analysis Report (CAR), per guidelines. Particular attention is given to making sense of writing, be it as a reader or a writer, because when we write, we write for others. Therefore, students will be expected to critically evaluate to what extent an author’s claims are credible, and, in the contrary case, how to counter them. Strategies to achieve these goals, and common academic practices, will be shared in class through readings, slides, exercises, discussions, as well as polls.