Why They Can’t Write
For well over 150 years in the US, some group has regularly noted that “kids today can’t write.” Each moment of literacy crisis in the US has been met by...
Rachel Winn Archives
The Meaningful Writing Project
The University Writing Program is excited to host another important book group discussion for faculty, staff, and administrators. Our book originally hosted in Fall 2023 focuses on how students perceive...
Small Teaching Online
In Fall 2021, the UWP hosted an online book group focused on Flower Darby and James Lang’s (2019) Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science to Online Classes. So much...
UnGrading
Over the last two years, the University Writing Program hosted several highly successful book groups focused on exciting new books about teaching and writing. For Spring 2022, we invite you...
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Spring WAC Academy & Faculty Writing Retreat
Here are two examples of the ways the UWP are supporting faculty as writers and teachers of writing each spring semester: the Faculty Writing Retreat and WAC Academy. Supporting faculty...
Trauma-Informed Equity-Centered Writing Instruction Across the Disciplines
Following the summer 2023 Advanced WAC Academy focused on Trauma-Informed Equity-Centered Writing Pedagogies, participants teamed up with the UWP again in the fall to share what they had been...
Writing Accountability Groups
There are a lot of reasons that writing doesn’t get done. The least important things in many faculty’s evaluations (for example, teaching) have the greatest built-in accountability. Those things most...