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Faculty Workshops

The Writing Center offers a series of workshops on the use and teaching of writing across the disciplines. Designed for faculty and TAs, interactive workshops 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

Helping Students Write from Sources: Strategies for "Reframing" Information  

WPI Writing across the Curriculum Series
October 2, 2008, 11:45-1:15 pm   Campus Center
Please contact Lorraine Higgins (x5503) to register or 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.

Presenter: Lorraine Higgins, Director, Writing Across the Curriculum

College students are often asked to develop written arguments that address the questions and problems raised in their courses and service-learning projects. This intellectually demanding task requires them to research information from multiple sources and to "reframe" that information around their own claims and organizing structures. This workshop explores some of the difficulties students face as they work with and write from sources texts, and it introduces a number of notetaking, planning, and other pre-writing strategies that can support students and help them avoid the unfocused knowledge dumps and list-like summaries we sometimes see in their drafts. Specifically, the workshop introduces how annotated bibliographies, notetaking matrices, mind maps, and peer planning techniques can be used productively when writing from sources.

 

Launching Labs: Using Writing to Plan Labs, Interpret Data, and Report Results

WPI Writing Across the Curriculum Series
Coming in C term! Look for details and 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.

Presenter: Lorraine Higgins, Director, Writing Across the Curriculum

Writing to Learn: Designing Informal Writing Assignment that Promote Learning in the Disciplines

Coming in 09! Check for details in B term.

Presenter: Lorraine Higgins and colleagues from across the WPI consortium

 

 

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