Supporting Students' Academic Writing and Self-Sufficiency

In this faculty lunch forum, we will discuss strategies for implementing more opportunities for academic writing in courses across the university. In particular, we will talk about how to:

• Incorporate short writing exercises that can help to generate class discussion
• Encourage exploration and/or retention of ideas
• Enable students’ self-sufficiency.

We’ll also talk about how to grade/assess such writing exercises, as well as when and why it can be productive to not grade them – depending on what the purpose of each
exercise is and how it functions within the content and work of a particular course.

Presented by:

Dr. Sarah Allen
Director of Composition
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition
Department of English Language and Literature

Sponsored by: