Writing
Consultation Opportunities
The
Campus Writing Coordinator offers consultation in the
following areas:
1.
working with departments (or other units) to develop coordinated
writing plans for undergraduate majors;
2.
assisting individual faculty in the disciplines with writing
instruction in any upper-division course (both “W”
courses and others), including help designing assignments,
sequencing long writing assignments, responding to student
writing, coordinating TA support, and organizing in-class
writing activities (such as peer review); and,
3.
assessing upper-division writing.
In
a long-term consultation, the Writing Coordinator or Writing
Consultant may attend class sessions (at the instructor’s
request) in order to
-
make
suggestions about ways to incorporate writing into the
syllabus (from small write-to-learn assignments to more
substantial projects),
-
provide
feedback on the design of existing writing assignments,
-
work
with students (one or one, in small groups, or the whole
class) on drafts, peer review, writing techniques, and
grammar and mechanics.
Our
staff is happy to carry out research tasks related to
writing instruction, seeking out resources on writing
in a particular discipline at the instructor’s request
(pedagogical articles, textbooks, exercises, etc.) and
reviewing or annotating them, suggesting which ones might
be most useful for the particular context of that
Last
update:
10/30/07
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