The Writing Across the Curriculum team provides services for instructors and faculty in any discipline who are incorporating writing into their teaching. Writing is a powerful and important tool for learning, and our multi-disciplinary WAC team can help you use it as effectively as possible. Keep your eye out for more e-mails this quarter to inform you about our services and to give you helpful tips for using writing in your classroom.

How do you help students adjust to writing again after their summer sojourns? (more…)

The WAC staff read two articles on workshop development. The first was the first chapter of Jeff Brooks-Harris and Susan Stock Ward’s book Workshops: Designing and Facilitating Experiential Learning (1999). The second was a foundational article on Writing Across the Curriculum workshops by Toby Fulwiler, “Showing, not Telling, at a Writing Workshop, ” College English 43 (1981): 55-63.

I’ve asked WAC team members to respond to the articles below: How have these articles shaped your thinking as you are preparing your first workshops?