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Teaching through Writing

Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC), Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing (CSTW)

Overview

Instructors often wonder how and whether their teaching helps students develop as writers and researchers in the long term. How can core writing- and research-intensive courses—or even any course that involves writing and inquiry—support students as they build the skills and mindsets that will help them become flexible, adept writers and researchers? Teaching through Writing introduces key frameworks for understanding how students learn writing and information literacy, such as the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy, teaching writing for transfer, folio thinking, and asset-based pedagogies. The seminar also provides an opportunity for instructors to use those frameworks to build strategies, assignments, and activities to guide students as they grow as writers and researchers. 

Learning Outcomes

Participants will be able to:

  • Describe how students learn disciplinary principles, genres, and conventions through writing and inquiry by situating their approaches within disciplinary discourse communities and course outcomes.
  • Articulate how writing and inquiry are iterative social processes that use drafting, collaboration, and metacognition to foster learning.
  • Develop strategies for teaching and assessing disciplinary writing and research, including opportunities for feedback, drafting, revision, and reflection.
  • Describe how students’ prior knowledge and skills may be adapted across contexts
  • Design transparent, accessible course materials that promote learning transfer to a range of contexts student writers and researchers might face.
  • Describe techniques to utilize students’ varying knowledge and lived experiences as assets in the writing and research process.
  • Infuse course design with approaches that foster student identity development as writers and researchers in disciplines.

Program Requirements

Requirements include the following:

  • Participants must register for and be accepted into the Teaching through Writing endorsement seminar. Seats are limited.
  • Visit the CSTW(opens in new window) website for more information about the WAC seminar.
  • Participants will be asked to read and reflect on pedagogical scholarship related to our work and then meet face-to-face or online (sessions will be available in both modalities) for 10 hours (five sessions, two hours each, with 1-2 hours of preparation outside the session). Participants must attend all sessions of the Seminar.
  • Participants must complete and submit a link to at least the guided action plan template within the seminar PebblePad workbook.
RequirementDelivery MethodDescription
Pre-session readings and reflectionsOnlineWe will share readings (some strongly suggested and others recommended) linked through a PebblePad workbook, which include reflective worksheets to prepare for our synchronous sessions
Synchronous meetingsIn-person or online (hybrid availability)We will meet over five sessions to share reflective activities in small groups and work together to draft activities and assignments involving writing
Action PlanOnlineParticipants will be asked to complete an action plan in their PebblePad workbook, either responding to guided questions and sharing drafts of assignments and activities, or creating their own portfolio page highlighting their work and reflecting on the role of writing in their teaching using concepts from the seminar

Verification

The final teaching endorsement application will require you to upload a signed completion of criteria document from CSTW.

 

Interest Form

Complete an optional contact form.

Teaching Endorsement Application

Submit your final application after completing all criteria.