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Seminar, Wed, 5/22

Morning

Concerns so Far

  • Grades/Standards
  • Pacing/Scaffolding of Assignments
  • Workload: Students and Teachers, “obsessive editing”
  • “Balancing” Close Reading/Content/Composition
  • Structure and Responsiveness

Working With Student Writing (From Yesterday)

Workshop: Writing Projects

In addition to the three standard workshop questions (what is the writer’s project?, what works best? what should the writer work on next?), please consider the following:

  • How would you describe the stance the author/teacher takes towards readers/students?
  • What terms of value appear in the text? What is said or suggested about how this writing will be evaluated?

Scaffolding and Scheduling

Afternoon

Lunch

Working on WordPress.com

Studio

Begin to sketch out the working schedule for your course, or to lay out the structure of your course website

Conversation With Returning Koshland Fellows

  • Insights from the seminar that continue to inform your teaching; and/or
  • New discoveries about teaching writing since then, ways in which you’ve revised and developed your teaching.

Writing for Tomorrow

Sketch out a working schedule for your R&C course. Bring three copies with you to class.

Seminar, Mon, 5/20

Morning

Introductions

Fast Write: You are an accomplished academic writer. (Otherwise you wouldn’t be in this room.) Please write a brief story about a moment when you learned something useful about academic writing. Try to create as compelling a story as you can. Let your points emerge through how you describe the characters, setting, and action of your narrative. I’ll ask you to introduce yourself to the seminar through reading this story aloud.

Read Alouds: Please take some notes as you listen to your colleagues’ stories. What similarities do you notice in how they describe learning to write as academics? What differences?

Seminar 

  • About
  • Plan
  • WordPress
  • Schedule

Designing a Writing Course

Keynote

PDFDownload

Reflections

Fast Write: What’s the most pressing question on your mind right now about how to design your R&C course?

Afternoon

Studio

Begin drafting your course overview.

Workshop

Working With Multilingual Writers, led by Michelle Baptiste, College Writing Programs

Best Practices

Language Focus TableDownload
Revision ChecklistDownload

Writing For Tomorrow

Please draft the overview for your R&C course. You’ll have some time to review some examples of other overviews and to begin writing this afternoon. Please bring two print copies of this piece to seminar tomorrow morning.

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