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Writing Across the Curriculum at Viterbo University
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Mission:
The Writing Across the Curriculum committee sponsors initiatives to support faculty members who teach writing, with the goal of improving student writing at Viterbo.
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Committee Members for 2008-2009: Barbara Gayle, Academic Vice President; Lindsay Cummings, Learning Center; Bill Stobb, English; Sheryl Jacobsen, Nursing; Virginia Pharr, Religious Studies; Anita Wood, Business
The Writing Across the Curriculum committee is available for workshops with individual instructors (and their students), departments, and schools. If you have a question about using writing in a course, either as a means of encouraging learning or as a device for measuring learning, contact the the Writing Across the Curriculum committee..
Previous WAC workshops
Using Write-to-Learn Assignments
Working Writing Into Your Course
Designing an effective writing assignment
Some useful resources for WAC: These Writing Center and Writing Across the Curriculum web pages provide course design guidelines, ideas for writing assignments, and a wide variety of other useful material. Looking for ideas for a writing course? Browse these links and you're certain to find something.
St. Martin's Handbook exercise central http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/smhandbook/pages/bcs-main.asp?v=&s=01000&n=00030&i=01030.00&o=
Articles for Instructors on Promoting Academic Integrity and Preventing Plagiarism http://www.uvm.edu/~judicial/ahresources.html?tp=true
Writing Across the Curriculum at UW-Madison: http://mendota.english.wisc.edu/~WAC/
Purdue University's online writing lab: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
The Writing Center at Colorado State University:
"Writing and Grammar," a series of student exercises from Utah Valley State College: http://www.uvsc.edu/owl/aboutwc.html
"Teacher Resources," from the University of Hawaii-Manoa: http://mwp01.mwp.hawaii.edu/resources.htm
Handouts from the Reading/Writing Center at Hunter College: http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/writing/on-line.html
The Writing Center at Renesselaer: http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/wc_web/school/index.htm
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Upcoming events: First meeting of 2008-2009 TBA New Handbook Initiative: Viterbo's Composition courses recently adopted Easy Writer, replacing The St. Martin's Handbook,. If you would list this text as required or optional for any of your courses, you can receive a complimentary desk copy. Contact Bill Stobb at westobb@viterbo.edu.
Viterbo Writing-intensive Courses: from the Viterbo Catalog All students must pass at least one writing-intensive, junior or senior level course or sequence of courses within their major fields. These courses are marked with a “W” in the catalog. Bachelor of Liberal Studies degree students should consult with the B.L.S. advisor to determine which course or courses will meet the requirement. Approved writing competency
courses include: Viterbo English 103/104 Course Descriptions and Student Learning Outcomes: English 103: Composition and Introduction to Argument Course Description: English 103, the first of two required composition courses, begins with personal writing and moves into essentials of argumentation, such as thesis, evidence, and counter-argument. The course also stresses essentials of written communication such as effective organization and sentence structure. Students learn to read texts closely in order to summarize, analyze, and respond to them, and are introduced to research methods and the use of sources in argument. By the end of the semester, students will be able to write thesis-driven arguments that integrate their own experience with sources outside themselves.
Student Learning Outcomes for Eng 103 Students will:
English 104: Composition and Introduction to Literature Course Description: English 104, the second of two required composition courses in Viterbo’s general education curriculum, is a topic-based writing course. Instructors determine a topical focus for their 104 sections—topics might include the environment, immigration, health care, gender, or poverty—but all sections of 104 introduce students to the conventions of literary genres such as fiction, poetry, drama, and literary non-fiction. Other course texts may be drawn from journalism, the humanities, film, and the arts and sciences. By examining literature within a social context, students see the relationship between art and culture, while gaining an introduction to literary studies. English 104 extends the focus on argumentation, research, and the writing process established in English 103 and culminates in a research project.
Student Learning Outcomes for Eng 104 Students will:
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