Writing Intensive Curriculum Program

WIC Spring Lunch: "From Writing Center to Writing Studio: What Faculty Need to Know"

April 21, 2017

Introducing the Undergrad Writing Studio
Presented by a panel led by Dennis Bennett, Director of the Writing Center

WIC Spring Lunch: High-Impact Writing Practices and Multimodal Learning

April 14, 2017

Constructs for Effective Writing Practices and Deep Approaches to Learning Scales and Items
Adapted from the article “How to Create High-Impact Writing Assignments that Enhance Learning and Development and Reinvigorate WAC/WID Programs: What Almost 72,000 Undergraduates Taught Us,” published in Across the Discipline, reputable journal for writing across the curriculum scholarship.

Zine Activity Introduction and Instructions
Presented by Vicki Tolar Burton, WIC Director; and Claire Roth, WIC GTA

WIC Fall Kick-Off Lunch

October 7, 2016

Helping Students Read Difficult Texts: The Reading-Writing Connection
Presented by Vicki Tolar Burton, WIC Director; and Claire Roth, WIC GTA

WIC Workshop: Writing and Learning in the Sciences and other STEM Fields

May 13, 2016

• Writing and Learning in the Sciences and other STEM Fields (Presentation Slides)
• The Power of Writing for Learning: Short Assignments in Large-Enrollment Classes
• More Ideas for Student Writing Assignments in Large-Enrollment Classes
• Assigning and Managing Group Writing Projects
• Tools for Giving Efficient, Effective Feedback to Student Writing
• Peer Review: Can the Backbone of Research be the Backbone of Teaching?
• Multimodal Assignments: Writing for the Digital Age

Presented by Dr. Chris Thaiss, Clark Kerr Presidential Chair and Professor in the University Writing Program, UC Davis

WIC Spring Lunch: Can We Make Students Plagiarism-Proof?

April 22, 2016

Plagiarism Guidelines for WR 121 Instructors
Initial Research Integration
Annotated Bibliography
Presented by Tim Jensen, SWLF

Can We Make WIC Students Plagiarism-Proof?
Presented by Sara Jameson, SWLF

Teaching WIC Online

• Susan Riggs, Course Development and Training
  • PowerPoint Presentation

Peer Review

• Sara Jameson, SWLF
  • Handout on Getting Responses from Peers, Friends, & Instructors
  • PowerPoint Presentation
• Ehren Pflugfelder, SWLF
  • Peer Evaluation Questionnaire
  • Resume Critique Form and Instructions
• Andrea Marks, School of Design & Human Environment
  • Peer Review Final Form

Curiosity Based Learning

• Tracy Ann Robinson, School of Engineering
  • Writers Personal Profile

Cultural Rhetoric in the Writing Classroom

• Rebecca Valdovinos, INTO OSU
  • PowerPoint Presentation
  • Handout on Cultural Rhetoric

Helping Students Make Sense of Fair Use

• Sue Kunda, Valley Library
  • Presentation (with additional images) and handout on ScholarsArchive
  • Handout on fair use as word document
  • The fair use reasoning process

Teaching Science and Professional Writing: An Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion

• Allen Sprague, School of Writing, Literature, and Film, and WIC
  • Writing-to-Learn in Science and Business
• Ehren Pflugfelder, School of Writing, Literature, and Film
  • Parallelism
  • Ten Hundred Words
  • The Given/New Method
  • The Paramedic Method
• Christine Pastorek, Chemistry
  • Integrating Good Figures, Tables, and Graphs
  • Chemistry 462 Writing Examples

Web and Document Accessibility Techniques

• Gabriel Merrell, Office of Equity and Inclusion
  • PowerPoint Presentation "Web and Document Accessibility Techniques"
  • Creating Accessible Microsoft Word Documents
  • Creating Accessible Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations
  • Converting Microsoft Word Documents to Accessible PDFs
  • Creating Accessible PDFs
  • Quick Reference Cards

Let's Talk about Clarity!

• Zach Pajak, WIC Assistant Coordinator, & Allen Sprague, WIC GTA
  • Handout "Let's Talk about Clarity!"

Technology and Teaching Writing

• Jeff Breitenfeldt, English GTA, WIC Intern
  • Handout "Virtual Office Hours"
  • Handout "Introducing a Class Blog"
• Sara Jameson, English
  • Handout "Hybridizing: Adding Online Components to your Courses"
• Jon Dorbolo, Technology Across the Curriculum
  • Handout "Philosophical Interviews for e-Campus Assignments"

Teaching Strategies

• Tara Williams, English
  • Handout "Prewriting: Getting Students Started"
• Jon Dorbolo, Technology Across the Curriculum
  • Handout "Educational Blogging"
• Vicki Tolar Burton, WIC Director
  • Handout "Improving Graduate Student Writing"

Departments Assessing Writing: Portfolios, Rubrics & Surveys

• Dan Edge, Fisheries and Wildlife
  • Handout "Learning Outcomes Assessment Plan"
• Becky Warner, Sociology
  • Handout "Department of Sociology Assessment: Theory Rubric"
• Kevin Boston, Forest Engineering
  • Handout "Creating Portfolios to Meet Assessment Requirements"

Students Self-Assessing and Setting Goals

• Tracy Ann Robinson, MIME Corporate Relations
  • Link "The Writer's Personal Profile"