Spring 1998

Anthony Wilcox, Proposer Goals: To develop a student writing guide for the significant forms of writing utilized in EXSS courses; and to conduct a faculty retreat to discuss the writing guide and plan for implementation in the curriculum.

Bob Lillie, Proposer
Goal: To support travel to a national conference for the proposer's presentation of the sequential writhlg assignment he had designed for his WIC course.

Geraldine Olson and Alexis Walker, Proposers
Goals: To continue departmental curriculum revision by identifying and incorporating writing skills, exercises, and assignments that will enhance student learning throughout the curriculum and prepare students for writing as professionals in the field after graduation; and to develop a departmental writing guide for students which addresses writing issues as they occur in the major.

Courtney Campbell, Jon Dorbolo, Kathleen Moore, JeffRamsey, and William Uzgalis, Proposers
Goals: To design and implement an online version of Writing Philosophy Papers: A Student Guide, including interactive elements and links to specific courses and further materials that would help students apply the writing guide in their own class work; and to hold a faculty retreat to train faculty in ways to integrate the online writing guide into their particular courses.

Dwaine Plaza and Mark Edwards, Proposers
Goals: To hold a series of departmental retreats/workshops which will facilitate faculty discussion of using writing throughout the Sociology curriculum and then progress to the development of a writing handbook for students enrolled as majors and minors in the department.

Judy Bowker, Proposer
Goals: To design a new writing guide for the department which incorporates elements of an earlier version of the departmental guide, guides developed by individual faculty, and new elements and examples as needed; and to construct a departmental Writing Web Site for use by students at all levels.

Jackie Balzer, Proposer
Goals: To increase the use of writing activities in the university orientation course for first year students, ALS 111, OSU Odyssey, through developing a chapter for the Faculty Resource Notebook on writing activities to be incorporated in the course.

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