Resources for Faculty
Class Visits
The University Writing Center offers classroom visits by trained Writing Assistants to explain the tutoring services offered by the Center and to invite students to make use of this campus resource.
Tutoring is available to any CSU, Chico student at any level, from first-year to graduate, in any discipline.
Class visits take about 5 minutes.
To request a visit, Contact the University Writing Center at 898-5042.
Consultation
The University Writing Center offers consultation to faculty who wish to learn to use writing more effectively in their Writing Proficiency or other writing-intensive courses.
Contact: Mark Hall
Coordinator
898-6037
MHall@CSUChico.edu
Effective writing assignments in every discipline address
these seven principles explicitly for students in
writing. Faculty may contact the University Writing Center to
arrange for individual consultation to develop or revise
writing assignments and WP courses:
Contact: Mark Hall
Coordinator
898-6037
MHall@CSUChico.edu
The Council of Writing Program Administrators, a national
professional organization of specialists in the teaching and
learning of writing, developed these definitions to
distinguish between deliberate “plagiarism” and the
unintentional “misuse of sources.”
While these assignment ideas for any
writing in any discipline are aimed at helping students avoid
plagiarism before it occurs, they may also be useful for
teachers seeking not only to prevent plagiarism, but also to
design effective writing assignments generally.
Faculty may contact the University Writing Center to arrange for individual
consultation to develop or revise writing assignments and WP courses:
Contact: Mark Hall
Coordinator
898-6037
MHall@CSUChico.edu
The University Writing Center offers writing assistance to
students in any discipline, at any level. These questions are
designed to help faculty provide all the necessary information
about a writing assignment so that tutors are able to
understand each unique context for writing.
From the National Commission on Writing
“American education will never realize its potential as an engine of opportunity and economic growth until a writing revolution puts language and communication in their proper place in the classroom. Writing is how students 'connect the dots' in their knowledge. Although many models of effective ways to teach writing exist, both the teaching and practice of writing are increasingly shortchanged throughout the school and college years. Writing, always time-consuming for student and teacher, is today hard-pressed in the American classroom. Of the three 'Rs,' writing is clearly the most neglected.”
Writing Is Everybody's Business
“Another recommendation calls for major efforts to improve teacher training in all disciplines. "Writing is everybody's business," says the report, calling on teachers in history, social studies, science, and mathematics to add writing to their instruction.”
-- The Neglected "R": The Need for a Writing Revolution, April 2003
See the full text of the Commission’s report at http://www.writingcommission.org/
Writing in the Disciplines
Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab (OWL) offers resources for faculty interested in learning more about writing in the disciplines:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/WAC/
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