In this interactive mini-workshop, instructors will revise one of their writing assignments focusing on how the assignment fits with writing and language goals for students in the course and the field and how to convey goals and expectations effectively and concisely to students. We will also share advice for helping students to fulfill our assignments successfully, including how our response practices align with assignment and course learning goals. Instructors should bring with them one of the writing assignments they regularly give.
Medium of instruction:
English
Date & Time:
13 Sep 2016 (Tuesday) (2:30pm - 4:30pm)
Venue:
Room 712, William Mong Engineering Building (Campus Map)
Speaker’s Biography:
Emerita Professor Dr. Terry Myers Zawacki directed a nationally recognized Writing Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program and the University Writing Center at George Mason University for over 25 years. She continues to give workshops and presentations at tertiary institutions in the U.S. and around the world, most recently a plenary talk at the 2015 inaugural English Across the Curriculum conference and also in 2015 a keynote talk and workshop in Estonia for the Association of European Teachers of Academic Writing. She is lead editor of the International Exchanges on the Study of Writing and sits on the editorial boards of a number of WAC-related journals and book series. Her publications include the co-authored Engaged Writers and Dynamic Disciplines: Research on the Academic Writing Life and the co-edited collections WAC and Second Language Writers: Research towards Linguistically and Culturally Inclusive Programs and Practices, and Writing Across the Curriculum: A Critical Sourcebook, as well as chapters and articles on a range of teaching-with-writing topics.
