Faculty Workshops

WPI's Communication Across the Curriculum (CxC) initiative provides professional development in the teaching of writing and in the use of writing for disciplinary knowledge. Designed for faculty and TAs, interactive workshops, graduate level seminars, and Spring Institutes are led by Lorraine Higgins and other rhetoric colleagues in the Humanities and Arts Department. Past workshops have included:

Responding to Student Writing
Assisting Peer Writers (for Peer Learning Assistants)
Genre Knowledge and the IQP Report
Helping Students Work with Print and Electronic Sources
Analyzing Arguments
Organizing the Literature Review

The Writing Center also sponsors readings and talks by respected writers and teachers.

Upcoming Workshops

Plagiarism 2: Detection and Response

WPI Writing across the Curriculum Series and CEDA's Food for Thought

March, 22, 2010 12:00 -1:15 pm Campus Center Hagglund Room

Please register on-line at CEDA Food for Thought Lunches and Workshops. Lunch will be provided to all those who pre-register using CEDA's registration site.

Academic Reading the Shifting Terrain of the New Literacies

WPI Writing across the Curriculum Series and CEDA's Food for Thought

A term, 2010 (date and location to be announced)

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