WAC Workshops for Spring 2009
To
register for workshops, contact Tamarus Stokes at x3740
or email tamarus.stokes@wright.edu.
Writing for Critical Thinking in Large Classrooms
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
12:30-1:30 p.m.
023 Paul Laurence Dunbar Library (Center for Teaching and Learning)
Led by Joe Law, Assistant Vice President for Articulation and Transfer, and Coordinator, Writing Across the Curriculum; Peggy Lindsey, WAC Faculty Consultant; Kelli Zaytoun, Director of Women's Studies and Associate Professor of English; and Carol Herringer, Associate Professor of History and Director, Social Science Education Program.
Earlier WAC lunchtime discussions have focused on using writing as a means to encourage students' critical thinking - but how do you manage that with a class of 40-100 students? Join us for a discussion of ideas for assignments (formal and informal) and strategies appropriate for working with larger groups of students.
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To make your reservation, contact Tamarus Stokes at x3740 or at tamarus.stokes@wright.edu
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Developing Rubrics for Responding to Student Writing
April 28, 2009
12:30-1:30 p.m.
023 Paul Laurence Dunbar Library (Center for Teaching and Learning)
Led by Joe Law, Assistant Vice President for Articulation and Transfer, and Coordinator, Writing Across the Curriculum; and Peggy Lindsey, WAC Faculty Consultant.
Looking for a way to respond consistently to student writing, encourage substantial, independent revision - and save time? Consider developing a grading rubric. This workshop, developed in response to annual WAC surveys, will provide guidelines for developing grading rubrics and a number of examples of completed rubrics.
To make your reservation for either session, contact Tamarus Stokes at x3740 or at tamarus.stokes@wright.edu
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An Anthropologist Looks at Plagiarism Book Discusion
Thursday, May 7, 2009
11:00-1:00 p.m.
023 Paul Laurence Dunbar Library (Center for Teaching and Learning)
Led by Joe Law, Assistant Vice President for Articulation and Transfer, and Coordinator, Writing Across the Curriculum; and Peggy Lindsey, WAC Faculty Consultant.
In a new book (My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture), anthropologist Susan Blum examines plagiarism in academe today. Drawing on extensive student interviews, she considers, among other things, how the concept of intellectual property is regarded among students and how outcomes-based secondary education may encourage students to pursue good grades by any means. Join colleagues from across campus to discuss some of the ideas Blum raises and the implications for our own teaching.
To make your reservation for either session, contact Tamarus Stokes at x3740 or at tamarus.stokes@wright.edu
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Intro to Faculty Writing Groups
Thursday, May 21, 2009
12:30-1:30 p.m.
023 Paul Laurence Dunbar Library (Center for Teaching and Learning)
Led by Peggy Lindsey, WAC Faculty Consultant, and Faculty Writing Groups Members .
Like our students, faculty sometimes struggle to find time to do all the writing we need to do. The WAC program is sponsoring two new programs to help you make steady progress on your own writing and research: Faculty Writing Groups and Faculty Writing Boot Camps. Participants in current faculty writing groups and recent boot camps will share their experience and offer strategies on how to integrate time for scholarship into a full teaching schedule.
To make your reservation for either session, contact Tamarus Stokes at x3740 or at tamarus.stokes@wright.edu
Previous WAC Workshops
Winter 2007
Lunch with the WAC Consultant
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
12:15-1:30 p.m.
023 Paul Laurence Dunbar Library (Center for Teaching and Learning)
The Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program and the Department of English have developed a new resource—the WAC faculty consultant service—for faculty teaching writing intensive (WI) courses in the major. This new service gives faculty who would like to enhance their teaching of WI classes the opportunity to work one-on-one with an experienced writing teacher throughout a quarter. Come have lunch with Peggy Lindsey, the WAC Faculty Consultant, and some of the faculty she has already been working with for an informal discussion of this service. Lunch will be provided.
To make your reservation, contact Tamarus Stokes at x3740 or at tamarus.stokes@wright.edu
Using Writing Assignments to Help Students Read Difficult Texts
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
12:00-1:00 p.m.
023 Paul Laurence Dunbar Library (Center for Teaching and Learning)
or
Thursday, January 25, 2007
12:00-1:00 p.m.
023 Paul Laurence Dunbar Library (Center for Teaching and Learning)
Many of our students have enough difficulty reading some of the textbooks and articles they are assigned that their progress in a course is limited. This workshop will explore some means of using writing to help students engage more successfully with those eadings. Lunch will be provided.
To make your reservation for either session, contact Tamarus Stokes at x3740 or at tamarus.stokes@wright.edu Top
Timesaving Strategies for Assigning and Responding to Student Writing
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
12:00-1:00 p.m.
023 Paul Laurence Dunbar Library (Center for Teaching and Learning)
or
Thursday, February 15, 2007
12:00-1:00 p.m.
023 Paul Laurence Dunbar Library (Center for Teaching and Learning)
One of the greatest challenges of using writing to teach a subject is managing the paper load. This workshop will explore strategies to provide help to student writers without being overwhelmed by the need to respond. Lunch will be provided.
To make your reservation for either session, contact Tamarus Stokes at x3740 or at tamarus.stokes@wright.edu
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Connecting your WI Class to ENG 101/102 (February 28, 2007)
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
12:15-1:30 p.m.
023 Paul Laurence Dunbar Library (Center for Teaching and Learning)
Join Peggy Lindsey, the WAC Faculty Consultant, to receive information about the two texts most commonly used in ENG101 and 102—Richard Bullock’s The Norton Field Guide to Writing and Diana Hacker’s A Writer's Reference. Because nearly all first year students purchase these texts, faculty can include them on syllabi as recommended/optional texts without requiring additional financial output for most students. Learn how you can use these texts to enhance your WI courses—either simply as a familiar reference point or reminder for students or more extensively as a teaching tool. Lunch will be provided.
To make your reservation, contact Tamarus Stokes at x3740 or at tamarus.stokes@wright.edu
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