Our Promise - Student Spotlights W riting Across the Curriculum Despite the booming job market, employers agree that graduates need good writing skills. In order to teach students the value of clear communication, Sawin organizes presentations campuswide. She works with students in many disciplines reading, ranking and discussing their work.
Students compare their own writing to samples and learn how to meet the needs of specific audiences.
In WAC workshops, faculty learn to design, sequence, respond to and evaluate writing tasks. MWSC faculty have presented the results of improved instruction in writing at national conferences in business, elementary education, chemistry, social work, psychology, physical education and recreation. Faculty active in WAC have also published their work in national journals. In Teaching of Psychology, Dr. Sally Radmacher and Sawin provide statistical evidence that writing improves learning, while in a recently accepted article for the Journal of Chemical Education, Dr. Tony Wallner and Sawin describe how they redesigned technical writing and communication in a senior-level seminar. It isn't easy.