Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus
Over the last four years, the University Writing Program hosted several highly successful book groups focused on exciting new books about teaching and writing. For Fall 2022, we invited participants...
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Who Do You Think You Are? Unpacking Teacher-Writer Identities
Effective teaching involves a commitment to praxis and metacognitive reflection on what you believe, intend to accomplish, and act on or change in your teaching. To aid in this...
WAC: Teaching Writing Intensive Courses in a Shortened Semester
Teaching a WI course online in 8 weeks requires changes to our approach, but such a focused learning context can also be a highly rewarding experience. Planning your workload, analyzing...
WAC: Exploring the University Writing Outcomes
As writing teachers across the curriculum, we need to balance a focus on disciplinary goals and content while still helping students become stronger and more effective writers who can meet the ECU University Writing Outcomes (UWOs) by...
Teaching WI: A Crash Course
Join the University Writing Program in a conversation about the ways we can support you as a writer and as a teacher of writing at ECU. Participants will leave with...
Creating More Effective Writing Assignments
Effective student writing starts with strong writing assignments. Such assignments are also an important way for instructors to articulate the goals and values of a discipline. In this interactive workshop,...
Writing to Learn: A Classroom Strategy
While high-stakes writing assignments are an important learning tool in classrooms across the disciplines, low-stakes assignments encourage active learning while stimulating class discussions and facilitating formative assessment. In this interactive...