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
Designing Writing Assignments
Dr. Leslie Perelman Director, Writing Across the Curriculum
Often poorly-designed writing assignments produce poorly-written, vague, and unfocused papers. Well-designed assignments can help students develop a deeper understanding of the material they’re writing about and how scholars think about that material. This workshop will focus on designing assignments to help students achieve the communicative goals you set while avoiding confusion and temptations to plagiarize.
Mon Jan 24, 10-11:30am, 12-134
Why We Cite: Teaching the Purposes and Practices of Academic Source Use
Dr. Suzanne Lane Associate Director, Writing Across the Curriculum
Do your students cite sloppily, quote incorrectly, lack evidence, summarize rather than analyze, or choose sources poorly? This workshop will address the complex issues that arise in teaching students to identify, evaluate, integrate, and document sources professionally.
Tue Jan 25, 10-11:30am, 12-134
Thinking and Talking: Oral Communication in the Classroom
Atissa Banuazizi Lecturer, Writing Across the Curriculum
This workshop will examine the rich variety of forms that oral presentations can take, in order to help instructors reconceptualize the role of speaking in their classes. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of fundamental oral communication concepts, will consider how speaking assignments may be integrated into a class most fruitfully, and will explore how to respond to student presentations.
Wed Jan 26, 10-11:30am, 12-134
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.
Thu Jan 27, 10-11:30am, 12-134
Teaching Students to Communicate: Recent Research from MIT - THIS SESSION IS CANCELLED
Leslie Perelman
How is the teaching of communication being shaped by developments in digital media? Do students in new interdisciplinary fields learn to communicate in interdisciplinary ways? What’s new in the teaching of scientific communication? This session will present recent developments in the field of writing and communication by researchers in Writing Across the Curriculum at MIT.
Thu Jan 27, 02-04:00pm, 12-134
Latest update: 27-Jan-2011
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