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WI Faculty Workshop

Writing Across the Curriculum at MU

Started by Faculty

Led by Faculty

For 40 years

Our Mission

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The mission of the Campus Writing Program is to invest in teaching with writing for learning across the curriculum.

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What is WAC?

An initiative started in the 1970s focusing on language and communication for learning. (James Britton, Development of Writing Abilities)

• Write to Learn content
• Learn to Write in the discipline
• Engage learners in problems towards deeper understanding (Bean & Melzer, Engaging Ideas)

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Writing Is…

• Generative
• Thought made visible
• A record of experience
• Varied in form
• Active, engaging, personal

Freewrite: Non-Stop Writing

• Avoid distractions (phone, chat).
• Do not edit or focus on errors.
• Write on the topic and allow yourself to go to different topics.
• You do not need to write fast, but you do need to KEEP writing.
• If blocked, write about your challenges with writing.

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Reflecting on Last Year

What has gone well in your teaching?

• Changes in lessons or new assignments?
• Student outreach and connections?
• New tech tool or strategy?
• Having survived another semester?

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• We will freewrite to these prompts and then share a line on a google form.

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FREEWRITING PROMPT

Literacy to Support Content Learning

“Higher cognitive functions, such as analysis and synthesis, seem to develop most fully only with the support system of verbal language—particularly, it seems, of written language.

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…writing, through its cycle involving hand, eye, and brain, marks a uniquely powerful multi-representational mode for learning.”

Janet Emig

“Writing as a Mode of Learning”

CWP Origins

1983

A&S call for additional Composition Course

1984-1985

Campus Writing Board develops governing policies

1986

Faculty votes for one-course WI requirement

1989

Task Force recommends 2nd WI Course

2024

Faculty approves updated WI guidelines

MU’s Writing Requirement

6 WI Credits (or more)

English 1000, First Year Composition

WI Credits in any discipline or level

Upper-Division WI Credits in Major

3

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English Department

CWP and MU Departments

Writing Intensive Guidelines

• Complexity of assignments
• At least 6600 words (20 pages; 8 pages revised)
• Writing/revising throughout semester (with feedback)
• Writing as a major portion of grade (50%)
• 25:1 Student-to-Faculty ratio

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Faculty Support

• Semester Faculty and TA Workshops
• Faculty Roundtables and Seminars
• Writing Consultations
• Writing Retreats
• Websites of resources

Goals for the Workshop

• Provide you information about WI Guidelines in designing your course and planning instruction
• Support your teaching with writing from assignment design to feedback to assessment
• Guide you in completing a WI Course Proposal

MU’s Campus Writing Program

• Amy Lannin – Director
• Christy Goldsmith – Associate Director
• Julie Birt – Assistant Director
• Carla Gallegos – Program Manager

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Meet the staff!