WAC Workshops
Outlines and Online Resources
These sample workshops provide a sense of how WAC principles can be
implemented in courses and disciplines, as well as in the contexts of universities,
high schools, or the workplace. The workshops are intended to introduce faculty
to more comprehensive sources, such as John Bean’s Engaging Ideas,
Barbara Walvoord’s and Virginia Anderson’s Effective Grading,
Christopher Thais’s Guide to Writing Across the Curriculum, and others.
1. UBUS 311: The International Business
Project (student workshop designed at faculty request)
2. UBUS 223: The Airfare Project (student workshop
designed at faculty request)
3. Informal Writing and
Critical Thinking
4. The Transition
to Business Writing from First-Year Composition
5. Designing
Assignments in Multiple Stages
6. Seven Ways to Respond to
and Assess Writing
7. Portfolios in Business Writing
3. Embedded Reflection
(for TAs in First-Year Composition)
1. Disclosure and Confidentiality
in Writing
3. Job Search
5.
Plagiarism
and You: Some Consequences for Teaching
1. Writing as an
Alternative to Lecturing -- Workshop for TAs in History (2000)
2. Writing in History (2001, 2002)
1. Editing Workshop—Wood
Equipment Company
1. How to Encourage Good Writing
In all Subjects (2000)
2. NIU Expectations for Freshmen (2003)
3.
Grammar, Good Writing, and Classroom Management (2004)
1. Motivating Students to
Revise Through Effective Response
3. Assignment
Workshop—Portfolio Rubric and Nursing Objectives
4. Designing Short
Assignments in SON
1. Setting Up a Writing Center—some
considerations
2. Reading-Writing Connections—a
day-long workshop
3. University
101: The Writing Component (for new instructors of UNIV 101, 2003)
4. Beyond the 5-Paragraph Essay:
What Do We Really Want Writing to Be? (FAQs &
Examples)
1. Cultural Rhetorics (a workshop for the
Multicultural Curriculum Transformation Institute, 2002 & 2003)