Individual grants are available for you to study particular approaches to teaching writing in your own classroom or to look more broadly at writing in your discipline. You might study the goals, assumptions, and formats of your field or the expectations of student writing that faculty in your department have. Department grants are available to help you develop a comprehensive approach to integrating writing into your curricula. Early on, especially, you will want to develop lower division WI courses to meet the needs of your incoming students. This category includes your senior seminar courses.
Any teaching assistant is welcome to attend.
The Center can also offer specialized workshops for TA's within your department if you have particular issues you would like covered and a faculty member willing to work with us in coordinating it. The faculty development workshops offered by CISW throughout the year are one of the best places to connect with other faculty also concerned about student writing. CISW will also have available on its web site a bulletin board for posting of information and discussions. Join us, too, for the varied speakers, colloquia, and workshops that we will be having throughout the year. We are especially pleased to have Toby Fulweiler, a nationally known expert in writing across the curriculum, visit during Spring 1999.