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Fall 2009
Fall 2009 Faculty Seminars
October 14, 21, 28, November 4 and 11, 2009
Noon-1 pm., Conference Room, Waldo 121
WIC Fall Event
Pizza Lunch for WIC Teachers
"Top Ten Ways to Improve Student Writing"
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"Writer's Personal Profile survey on Blackboard"
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Noon-1 pm., Conference Room, Waldo 121
Spring 2009
"My Involvement with WIC/WAC/WID and What I’ve Learned Over the Years"
Guest Speaker: David Russell
Tuesday, May 12,
2009
Noon-1 pm., Conference Room, Waldo 121
Spring 2009
"My Involvement with WIC/WAC/WID and What I’ve Learned Over the Years"
Guest Speaker: David Russell
Tuesday, May 12,
2009
Noon-1 pm., Conference Room, Waldo 121
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"Creating Writing Assignments that Work for Your Course—AND Your Curriculum"
Guest Speaker: David Russell
Tuesday, May 12,
2009
4 - 5 p.m., Memorial Union, Room 211
David Russell is Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Communication at Iowa State University. His research interests include writing in the disciplines and professions, international writing instruction, writing assessment, and the history of writing instruction in education—all from the perspective of cultural-historical activity theory and genre systems theory. Russell is the author of Writing in the Academic Disciplines, 1870-1990: A Curricular History. He is the coeditor of Writing Selves/Writing Society, Writing and Learning in Cross-National Perspective: Transitions from Secondary to Higher Education, and Landmark Essays in Writing Across the Curriculum.
Spring 2009
"Authoring an article vs. writing a paper: Getting undergraduate students to buy-into and pursue writing for publication"
Guest Speaker: Brad Cardinal
Friday, May 1,
2009
Noon-1 pm., Conference Room, Waldo 121
This seminar will focus on reorienting undergraduate students’ perspectives toward writing and the outcomes of writing. The approach involves redirecting students toward authentic and real-world writing experiences that may result in publication. Students are exposed to “how to write for publication” and encouraged to think of themselves as authors and writers. Using this approach students aren’t just writing their papers for “an assignment, “a class,” or “a teacher,” but rather writing articles that have real potential to be published.
Brad Cardinal, Professor of Nutrition and Exercise Science, has assisted more than 20 undergraduate students who have successfully seen their work published in newsletters, local and regional newspapers, regional and national trade magazines, and peer-reviewed, professional journals. Whether or not students end up publishing their work, most respond very favorably to this approach, reporting that their research skills and ability to be consumers of research vis-à-vis reading research articles and sharing the results with a predetermined audience have improved by the end of the term. In his talk, Brad Cardinal will share some of the pros and cons of this approach, including the process, time commitment, and challenges and opportunities when working with undergraduate student authors.
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Winter 2009
"The Prewriting
Exercise: Getting
Students Started"
Guest
Speaker: Tara Williams
PreWriting PowerPoint Presentation
Friday, February 20,
2009
Noon - 1 p.m.,
Conference Room, Waldo 121
This talk will discuss how to design effective
"prewriting exercises," which offer many of the benefits of rough
drafts--such as getting students started sooner, allowing the opportunity for
preliminary feedback, and contributing to stronger final drafts--but at an
earlier phase in the writing process and in an informal format that keeps
students'ideas open-ended and thus open to substantial revision. Prewriting
exercises have a number of other concrete benefits: they can be graded
efficiently with comments that students find useful, they encourage students
to develop and rely on their own ideas, and they help students balance
multiple resources or elements (including primary texts, secondary research,
and digital archives or databases).
"Writing for Visual Thinkers"
Guest Speaker: Andrea Marks
WIC Lunch, Friday, February 6,
2009
Noon - 1 p.m., Conference Room, Waldo 121
Writing can be a challenge for many of us, but especially for artists and designers, who tend to be more visual than verbal. Writing for Visual Thinkers: A Guide for Artists and Designers is an e-book designed to help people who think in pictures --a segment of learners that by some estimates includes almost 30 percent of the population -- gain skills and confidence in their writing abilities.
The book takes full advantage of its rich media format with a wealth of images and links to articles, books, websites, blogs, wikis, video, and audio podcasts. Written with the visual thinker in mind, the book offers hundreds of links -- from Leonardo da Vinci's sketchbooks to video of Jack Kerouac's On the Road scroll -- adding depth and dimension to the written word and encouraging readers to explore their thoughts and ideas in text.
Writing for Visual Thinkers approaches the craft of writing from many directions, all with the ultimate goal of unblocking the reader's verbal potential. It offers a guide to mind mapping, concept mapping, freewriting, brainwriting, word lists and outlines, as well as provides student examples, tips on writing grant proposals, reasons for keeping a blog and more. In her WIC presentation, Andrea Marks (Associate Professor of Graphic Design) will discuss both the process of composing Writing for Visual Thinkers and share some important insights about how faculty can work effectively with visually oriented learners.
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