February 10, 2012
The Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Program announces the WAC Starter Grant Program. The purpose of the program is to foster the development of effective ways to teach writing in the disciplines, through the design of innovative instructional approaches, assignments, and classroom activities. Grants will be awarded to assist faculty in designing activities, assignments, outcomes,…
February 9, 2012
Lindee and I met with our history team: Dan Murphree, Emily Graham, and Scot French. The purpose of the first round of the small team meetings is to begin developing department-specific writing outcomes. We began with a discussion of the "home assignment" –a chapter from the excellent book Engaging Ideas, by John Bean. By the…
February 7, 2012
The Second Annual Knights Write Showcase will take place on Monday, February 13th, in Pegasus Ballroom of the Student Union. Like last year, it will feature panels of the best student writing from composition courses, and a faculty panel. A new feature of this year’s event is “WAC” a poster display by students from the…
February 1, 2012
Individual consultation with faculty is an important part of our work. By working collaboratively with individual faculty on the design and revision of writing assignments, we help to improve writing instruction at UCF “one course at a time.” These consultations also allow us to spend the necessary time with individual faculty members and to address…
January 18, 2012
The WAC Program, in collaboration with the Department of Chemistry and FCTL, has been awarded a CAH Research Incentive Grant to develop a prototype assessment instrument for writing in the sciences. The tool will allow instructors to get a “snapshot” of the quality of writing in their course and to create customized methods of writing…
January 18, 2012
Eleven faculty members from the Departments of History and Chemistry and from the College of Nursing will participate in the first WAC Fellows in Residence Program which begins on February 1, 2012. During this semester-long program, the participants will work with WAC faculty Pavel Zemliansky and Lindee Owens to develop materials for writing instruction in their…
January 18, 2012
The UCF WAC Program and the Department of Writing and Rhetoric present the first in a series of video interviews with UCF faculty members, in which they discuss their reading, research, and writing processes. The first interview, conducted and edited by Writing and Rhetoric faculty member, Dan Martin, is with Hakan Ozoglu, an associate professor…
January 11, 2012
Yesterday, Lindee and I met with the participants of the first WAC Fellows Program. This semester, we have 11 participants from three departments: Nursing, Chemistry, and History. The first session was dedicated to the discussion of some fundamental issues of writing istruction in the disciplines. After a round of introductions and the description of the…