Bianca Falbo

Lafayette College

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Faculty Workshop: What a WA Can Do for You

Faculty, did you know that

• all writers—both experienced and novice—benefit from having an informed, curious, engaged reader of their texts.

• any instructor can request a Writing Associate, even for courses that are not designated writing-intensive. Over the past year, WAs have assisted professors and their students in upper-level chemical engineering, economics, government & law, international affairs, and mathematics courses, just to name a few!

• students have lots of very thoughtful questions about academic writing—questions they may be more willing to ask fellow students than their professors.

• working with a Writing Associate does not lock you in to any set number of assignments for your course. WAs are expected to hold four conferences with your students, and conference should be spread out over the course of the semester.  But you decide when and where those conference will be most helpful.

• WAs can meet with your students at any stage of their writing processes, even while the student is still formulating an idea. By meeting with students before there’s an actual draft, WAs can often steer students away from projects that are unlikely to be successful and toward projects that better meet your expectations.

• contrary to popular belief, WAs can and do work with students on grammar and proofreading—along with the higher order concerns that make up the bulk of their conferences.

• WAs can also work with students on projects other than papers, including web pages and blog posts, PowerPoint presentations, podcasts, posters, etc.

Want to learn more? The College Writing Program cordially invites faculty to join us for lunch on Friday, November 22 at 12:15 in the Watt College Writing Room (Pardee 319). Bianca Falbo (CWP Director) and Christian Tatu (CWP Coordinator) will be on hand, along with our current senior WAs to discuss “What a WA Can Do for You.”

If you’re interested in joining us, please send an email to Christian at tatuj@lafayette.edu. When responding, please feel free to include any questions you might like to have answered by the College Writing Program staff about working with a WA, or about teaching and learning with writing in general.

Upcoming CWP Events for Faculty

Supporting Multilingual Writers in the Classroom
Friday November 1, 2-4 PM
For:  Faculty and Staff
Speaker:  Dr. Ethan Joella
Snacks:   Provided!
RSVP:  Bianca Falbo
 
New FYS Faculty, Friday
October 25, 12-1 PM, P 319
Topic:  Responding productively to sentence-level problems
Lunch provided courtesy of the Provost’s Office

New Course

ENG 250.  Writing Genres:  The Essay 2.0

An exploration of the essay genre in the digital age.   What is an essay? How has it been defined at different historical moments?  What possibilities and opportunities for essay writing are emerging in the digital environments currently available to us as 21st-century writers?  We’ll read a range of essays from early to contemporary examples of the genre.   Writing projects will include a podcast and a digital essay on topics chosen by students, as well as shorter assignments responding to the reading and our class discussion.

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Add/Drop Info

Both of my courses (ENG 218, V248-02) are full.  Because they are writing-intensive, I am obligated to keep the enrollment at 20.  If spaces open up, I will be happy to add you to the course, but happiest about doing that during the first week.  Check Banner to see whether there are openings, and bring your add/drop slip with you to class.

Writing (and Reading) in the 21st Century (ENG 110.05)

The meeting time for English 110, section 5 is incorrectly given on the English Department website.  Class meets on MWF from 2:10-3.  Course topic is “Writing (and Reading) in the 21st Century”:

A recent study of writing by undergraduate students at Stanford University concluded that Stanford students are spending more time than ever writing (and reading).  Nonetheless, concerns about how digital technologies like text messaging are eroding literacy skills—especially the literacy skills of students–are ubiquitous.  So what does it mean to read and write well in the twenty-first century?  What consequences has the digital “revolution” had for writing and reading?  What has your experience been as a reader and writer in this digital age?  How have digital technologies mattered to practices and conventions of academic writing?  How do digital technologies figure into the other reading and writing that you do on a daily basis?  The readings for this course will explore these questions and others about what it means to be a writer and reader in the 21st century.  You will also be asked to bring these ideas to bear on your own experience, and to do so in a range of print and digital genres.

Add/Drops for all sections of ENG 110 are handled by our Department Secretary Mrs. Riefehstahl in Pardee 316.

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