TechWrites: Crafting Assignments that Generate Good Writing
Date(s):
February 5, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location:
Virtual
In this interactive online workshop, participants will learn how to create writing assignments with clear objectives and that model for students' good writing practices.
Participants are encouraged, but not required, to bring an assignment they'd like to revise and update. Registration required.
For convenience, this workshop will be offered twice.
- Wednesday, Feb. 5 from 12 – 1 p.m.
- Thursday, Feb. 13, from 11 a.m. to noon.
Sponsored by the Naugle Communication Center and TechWrites.
Course Enhancement Workshops
The Course Enhancement workshops offer three opportunities to think ahead and develop your future courses with writing in mind. Each event is offered twice in the same month and conveniently held online. Once registered, you will receive a link to your event, along with event details.
Because these workshops are designed for staff and faculty looking to further integrate writing into their courses, we ask that attendants come prepared with an assignment in mind and materials to update and rework. Also note, the Course Enhancement workshops are designed to lead faculty through reworking an assignment from instructions to assessment, attendees are welcome to attend just one.
About TechWrites
Supported by the Provost’s Teaching and Learning Grant, the Center for Teaching and Learning, and the Office of Undergraduate Education, the Naugle Communication Center is pleased to host TechWrites, a yearlong series designed to support instructors working with undergraduate writers across disciplines. The series will include targeted lunchtime workshops addressing common areas of interest for instructors, reading day institutes focused on enhancing student writing in a specific course, and a featured speaker, Neal Lerner, co-author of The Meaningful Writing Project and Learning to Communicate in Science and Engineering: Case Studies from MIT, as well as author of The Idea of a Writing Laboratory.
