Making Writing Work for Your Teaching Goals: Thoughts
for an Overworked Faculty
Thursday, April 5 (11:45-1:00) Buntrock 142
Mark Allister, English and Writing Program Director
Chuck Huff, Psychology
David Schodt, Economics, and CILA director
Charles Umbanhower, Biology
We plan to talk about writing and writing pedagogy, not by focusing on the "nuts and bolts," the small things, how to write a better assignment, for example, but by dreaming of what we could do given world enough and time. We'll entertain questions such as the following:
- What classroom work are you trying to have
writing do?
- If there were no constraints, what would
you like writing to do?
- What are your constraints?
We'll eventually move to more particular matters, in this workshop or in a later one, but we'll begin by addressing meta-questions related to writing, students, and some course or courses we teach. No lectures given; note-taking optional.
