Technical, Scientific, and Professional Communication
Leslie Perelman
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
All WAC workshops are open to instructors and teaching assistants who work with CI subjects, or who are interested in integrating writing and speaking into their subjects.
Contact: Chelsey Norman, 12-117, x3-0650, chelseyn@mit.edu
Sponsor: Writing and Humanistic Studies
Powerful Feedback: Crafting Effective Response to Student Writing
Dr. Neal Lerner Director of Training, Writing Across the Curriculum
What kind of feedback will help students understand how to revise that essay, report, or article, or to write more effectively in their next assignment? This workshop will help faculty, TAs, and instructors learn to articulate their criteria for student writing, and to provide the kinds of comments and strategies that will help students understand how to improve both their essays and their skills as writers.
Mon Jan 25, 10-11:00am, 12-134
Visions of Revision: Teaching Students to Revise Effectively
Dr. Suzanne T. Lane (MIT '85) Associate Director, Writing Across the Curriculum
Wishing the revisions your students write were less like their initial essays? Wondering how to motivate students to revise thoroughly? Trying to decide which essay ought to be revised? This workshop will help you consider what you want students to learn from the revision process, how to help students understand the function of revision as rethinking, and how to build a more developed writing process into your subject.
Mon Jan 25, 02-03:00pm, 12-134
Developing Students’ Thinking Through Oral Presentations
Dr. Suzanne Lane and Dr. Neal Lerner Writing Across the Curriculum
By approaching oral presentations as a process rather than as a product, instructors can help their students achieve more depth and clarity. This workshop will help instructors think through their goals for oral assignments, so that they can learn to help students approach the engagement with their audience as a learning tool to develop their thinking, and not just as a performance.
Tue Jan 26, 10-11:00am, 12-134
Speaking of Speaking: Using Class Discussion to Develop Students’ Disciplinary Ways of Thinking
Dr. Suzanne Lane, Associate Director, Writing Across the Curriculum
What do we talk about when we talk about disciplinary ideas? This workshop will examine the functions of academic talk—defining terms, interpreting evidence, developing claims, etc.—in order to help instructors prepare students for effective discussion, deepen the level of learning and engagement in class, and use discussions to help students understand disciplinary ways of thinking.
Tue Jan 26, 02-03:00pm, 12-134
Using Technology to Teach Writing and Speaking
Dr. Mya Poe; Dr. Lisa Dush, Writing across the Curriculum
In this hands-on workshop, participants will be introduced to and experiment with a range of innovative technologies for document review, presentation design, and project management. We will also discuss strategies for integrating these new technologies into the classroom. The workshop is tailored to faculty/teachers; participants should bring a laptop.
Wed Jan 27, 10-11:30am, 12-134
Latest update: 15-Dec-2009
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