Resources for Faculty

Writing Program Advisory Committee

• Description and Composition
  

Teachers Talking Writing

• "Getting Writers Off To A Good Start", September 29, 2009
• "Effective Use of the Everyday Writer Handbook", November 10, 2009
• "Writing Assignments That Work", March 9, 2010

Proposing Your WRIT Course

• Description of the WAC Program
• WRIT Requirements
• WRITI/WRITD Forms - Curriculum Committee

Teaching and Assessing Writing

• Process-Based Approaches
• Designing Effective Writing Assignments
• Using A Handbook in Writing Courses
• Questions for Analyzing Literature Rhetorically
• Responding to Student Writing and Examples
• Developing and Using Rubrics
• Examples of Rubrics by Division
• Other Interdisciplinary Rubrics (critical thinking, oral presentation, debates, and more)
• Silvae Rhetorica: The Forest of Rhetoric
  

Valuable Resources

• Writing Center
• Andrea Lunsford's Everyday Writer (handbook)
• Writing Within FTS
• Gustavus Library
• Other WAC Programs
• John S. Kendall Center for Engaged Learning