Spring 1996

Kinsey Green, Proposer
Goal: To teach fifteen graduate student-teaching assistants to teach and evaluate writing in undergraduate courses, both lower- and upper-division, through a series of workshops and monthly "reunions " After training in WIC approaches, participants will design and apply writing experiences for students which require discipline-related skills and which are specific to the fields of professional specialization.

Kate Lajtha, Proposer
Goal: To hold a one-day retreat at Peavy Arboretum Lodge for instructors, experienced teaching assistants, and invited guests, with the goal of revising the Introductory Biology curriculum to include the use of writingto-learn in small lab sections.

Kathleen Moore, Proposer
Goal: To fund one course release-time (supplemented with department funds), during which the proposer will revise the course content and textbook for PHL 121: "Reasoning and Writing." to make them consistent with the goals and forms of the Philosophy Department's student writing manual, Writing Philosophy Papers: A Student Guide.

Guy Wood, Proposer
Goal: To fund one course release-time during which the proposer will coordinate an effort to revise approaches to writing used in Intermediate Level Spanish and develop an Intermediate Level Spanish placement test for incoming students.

Gary Ferngren, Proposer
Goal: To fund research materials, supplies, and assistance for the proposer to convert two existing history courses, History 321 (Greece) and 322 (Roman Republic) to WIC courses; to fund travel to a WAC conference or to a university with a WIC program to further the proposer's knowledge of teaching with writing.

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