This blog contains articles written by students in various sections of The Mindful Writer, one of the classes in the Leadership Core program at Sweet Briar College. The Mindful Writer is a workshop-based writing course that helps students become confident and effective readers and writers. Using the New Yorker magazine as the primary text — each student is provided an individual ten-week subscription — students learn to read carefully, identify the style and structure of individual pieces, and write several articles of their own, practicing a range of rhetorical methods while also conducting research, crafting persuasive arguments, and producing multiple drafts through careful and sustained revision.

We hope you enjoy browsing through these articles.