Revitalizing How We Teach Writing: Junior-Year Writing Courses and Beyond
This year's writing conference will present the latest techniques and technologies for faculty and TAs who teach students to write. We're pleased to offer several workshops that respond to concerns that our UMass Amherst colleagues have raised and that will offer the latest thinking in techniques and technologies on teaching students to write well. The workshop presenters are experienced teachers who have answers to your questions!
Workshop topics:
9:00 - 10:00 am
* Grammar and Style: Good Writing is Like Street Fighting
* Strategies for Using Computers to Facilitate Writing and Writing Instruction
10:10 -11:10 am
* Connecting English Writing 112 to Junior Year Writing
* Getting Good Results with Graduate Student Instructors in Junior Year Writing
11:20 - 12:20 pm
* Achieving a High Level of Academic English for English Second Language Students: Is it Possible?
* A Banquet of Library Offerings to Make Writing and Teaching of Writing More Efficient and Effective
12:30 Lunch (RSVP for lunch only)
All faculty and TAs who teach writing are welcome and do not need to RSVP for the workshops. If you want to join us for lunch and informal conversations about teaching writing at 12:30, please RSVP for the lunch only to beckyb@english.umass.edu by April 1.
Sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Writing Program and the Center For Teaching