About The Workshop Program (Writing Across the Curriculum)
In addition to offering advanced writing courses for specific disciplines or interdisciplinary fields, the Writing Across the Curriculum Program administers a workshop program to help faculty and TAs with the writing assignments in their courses, particularly GE courses.
Handy Links:List of workshop handouts available on-line
Online request form for workshops
Information on Faculty workshops, co-sponsored by TRC
Professional Development Series (PDS), sponsored by Internship adn Career Center
This program does not provide individual students with help on papers. The Learning Skills Center, located in Dutton Hall (telephone 752-2013), provides tutoring in writing and help with writing assignments.
Types of Workshops
A TA Workshop can teach TAs and graders to:
* Design effective writing assignments and exercises
* Develop and apply coherent grading standards
* Grade papers and lab reports more consistently
* Write comments more efficiently and effectively
* Coach their students on the process of writing
* Use writing to stimulate class discussion
* Integrate e-mail and newsgroups into discussion and research.
A class visit can help your students:
* Overcome writer's block and get started on the assignment early
* Respond to the specific tasks and challenges of the assignment
* Focus their research efforts efficiently
* Avoid plagiarism
* Adopt the conventions, formats and styles of the discipline
* Improve the overall quality of the written product
* Give each other more effective peer feedback on drafts.
Please Note: This site is under construction. If you have questions or suggestions about this page or ways that the Workshop Program can serve you, please call or e-mail John Stenzel (752-1954) to schedule a private consultation or to arrange a workshop tailored to your needs.
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