teaching with writing
workshops, consultations, & support
fall teaching with writing events
consultations
center for writing library
fall teaching with writing events
The Teaching with Writing series of events provides support and creates community for instructors across the University who use writing in their teaching. These workshops and panels are free and open to all University instructors on any campus.
For events over the lunch hour, lunch is provided for the first 30 registrants. Space for all events can be limited. Please register in advance through the newly launched Teaching with Writing interface (TWWi)
Phone reservations can be made by calling 612.626.7579.
upcoming events
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digital writing, writing online
Thursday, October 2
12:00 – 1:30
140 Nolte
Blogs and wikis are just the beginning. As digital and online media continue to emerge and expand, their utility and ubiquity in our classrooms increase as well. This lunchtime panel will explore a variety of approaches to using and assigning writing in digital and online modes in order to get pedagogical gain from these technological innovations.
Panelists: Phil Barry (Computer Science), Rick Beach (Curriculum & Instruction), Joanna O’Connell (Spanish & Portuguese)
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technology enhanced learning: is google making us stoopid? and other burning questions
Friday, October 10
9:00–10:30 am
12 Nicholson Hall
The first in the Engaging Controversies series, this discussion will bring us together to consider how the architectures of online technologies influence our learning and thinking. One or two short articles will be distributed to participants in advance to frame the conversation. Stout coffee provided.
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avoiding plagiarism: writing the wrongs
Wednesday, October 15
12:00 – 1:30
140 Nolte
Long construed as the great plague of education, plagiarism continues to infect the experience of teaching and learning in our classes. In many cases, plagiarism’s ill effects can be preempted by careful preparation and assignment design. Panelists in this session will share strategies and resources that help student writers avoid plagiarism (including uses of SafeAssign, Turnitin.com’s replacement) as well as productive responses to plagiarism and plagiarists.
Panelists: Pat Eliason (Writing Studies), Sarah Hobbie (Ecology, Evolution & Behavior), Kate Peterson (University Libraries)
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responding to student writing
Thursday, October 23
12:00 – 1:30
146 McNeal (St. Paul)
Rarely do students receive more affective—and potentially effective—messages from us than when we respond to their writing. In this panel discussion experienced teachers will discuss their techniques for responding to student writers, including designing and coordinating peer response.
Panelists: Ilene Alexander (Center for Teaching & Learning), Esam El-Fakahany (Psychiatry), Tim Gustafson (Writing Studies)
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owning ideas: intellectual property, propriety, and plagiarism
Friday, November 7
9:00–10:30 am
12 Nicholson Hall
The second in the Engaging Controversies series, this discussion will bring us together to consider the contested notions of intellectual property and their relationship to scholarship, publication, and teaching. One or two short articles will be distributed to participants in advance to frame the conversation. Stout coffee provided.
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assignment design: inspired, intelligent, or evolutionary
Wednesday, November 12
2:30 – 4:00
101 Walter Library
Our writing assignments sometimes fall short of our objectives. Creating writing assignments is just like writing: we draft, revise, and revise again. These experienced panelists share approaches to assignment design that create effective writing assignments that minimize headaches, heartaches, and handwringing. Beverages and light refreshments provided.
Panelists: Todd Arnold (Fisheries, Wildlife, & Conservation Biology), Kit Hansen (Writing Studies), Holly Littlefield (Strategic Management & Organization)
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writing research colloquium: interdisciplinary studies of writing grants
projects
Friday, November 21
12:00 – 1:30
135 Nicholson
This colloquium features the original writing research of our own University of Minnesota faculty, based on projects funded by the Center for Writing’s Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing (ISW) Grants:
Best Practices in Teaching Writing in Engineering: A Synthesis and Forum Analysis (David Beard, Writing Studies, UMD)
Factors that Influence the Efficacy of Student-to-Student Peer Review of Scientific Writing (Mark Stellmack and Yasmine Kalkstein, Psychology)
Integrating Critical Thinking in Pharmacy Student Writing Assignments Using the University’s e-Portfolio System (Kristin Janke, Pharmacy)
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profitable education: corporatization of higher education & writing instruction
Friday, December 5
9:00–10:30 am
12 Nicholson Hall (East Bank)
The third in the Engaging Controversies series, this discussion will bring us together to consider the trends and culture of business in higher education and writing instruction in particular. One or two short articles will be distributed to participants in advance to frame the conversation. Stout coffee provided.
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completed events
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writing & teaching in graduate school: a conversation between graduate students and recent PhDs
Tuesday, September 23
12:00 – 1:30
140 Nolte
This informal lunch conversation invites graduate students to discuss connections between scholarship and teaching—two endeavors that always involve writing. The conversation will be facilitated by three recent PhDs who bring fresh ideas and broad experiences to stimulate and encourage even fresher ideas from graduate students as scholar-writers and as teachers of student-writers.
Panelists: Anne Carter (Graduate School), Mitch Ogden (Center for Writing), Cassie Scharber (Curriculum & Instruction)
consultations
Consultants from the Center for Writing are
available to consult one-to-one on the following issues related to teaching with writing:
- effectively integrating writing and writing instruction in courses across the disciplines
- devising
effective syllabi and writing assignments
- responding
to student writing
- creating
grading criteria
- running a grade norming session with TAs
To request
a consultation, contact Mitch Ogden via email or
by calling 612.625.0849.
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center for writing library
The Center for Writing houses a collection of texts, journals, and reproducible handouts on Literacy, Rhetoric, and Composition Studies; Writing Across the Disciplines (WAC); and Writing in the Disciplines (WID). These resources are available for limited check-out or use within our offices. View our collection online.
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