Workshop topics
Here is a selected listing of workshops that we've provided. We would be happy to work with individual faculty or departments to develop others of interest to them.
Course design and implementation
- Constructing Effective Assignment Sequences
- Designing a Writing Intensive Course: A Workshop for New and Experienced Teachers
- Reading, Writing, Speaking: Using Language in the Classroom
- Teaching (with) Writing Effectively
- Teaching Writing by the Numbers
- Teaching Writing in Large Courses
- Teaching Writing in the Classroom: In-Class Projects
- Time and Workload Management in the Teaching of Writing
- The Syllabus as a Teaching Tool
Writing Across the Curriculum/Writing in the Disciplines
- Assigning and Teaching the Research Paper
- Matching Writing Curriculum to Disciplinary Values and Course Outcomes
- Teaching and Managing Writing Assignments in Nursing Courses
- Writing to Learn: Teaching Course Content and Disciplinary Conventions through Short Writing Assignments
- Overview of Writing Intensive Guidelines: What makes a course Writing Intensive?
- Critical Thinking and Writing
- Information Literacy and Writing
Drafting and feedback
- Designing a Drafting Process: Beyond the Half-Hearted Draft
- Responding to Student Writing
- Using Peer Review in WI Courses
- Tending the Sentence: Errors, Editing, and Expectations
Assessment and grading
- Approaches to Grading and Assessing Student Writing
- Improving Students’ Self-Evaluation Skills