Activities on Campus
- Collaborates with Project for Curricular Innovation
- Presents Workshop Series throughout the year
- Offers individual or departmental consultations on enriching the curriculum with writing or any other writing issue
- Is responsible for writing placement and exemption exams
- Is responsible for helping departments develop and maintain courses that meet the Junior Composition Requirement
- Networks with the English Department on Freshman and Junior English outcomes and issues
Current Initiatives/Accomplishments
- Strengthening a university-wide writing center to support undergraduate and graduate student writing and to support faculty teaching
- Helping faculty and departments create writing-enriched curricula
- Locating and supporting the places in the curriculum where writing is already taking place
- Helping interested faculty integrate writing-to-learn strategies into large lecture courses
- Conducting on-going workshops
- Working with the English Department to institute program-wide outcomes for Freshman English
- Consulting with and supporting the General Education Program through the Committee on Writing Across the Curriculum
- Developing a MOO (graphically-interfaced synchronous virtual space) for writing-enriched and writing-in-the-discipline faculty to teach, find resources, and interact. The MOO also provides virtual space and time for student tutoring
- Available for assistance and support in writing-enriched course design through its interactive CD ROM. Contact the Center for Writing Excellence for more information
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