On Tuesday, August 15, 11:30 AM, Hanson Center for Communication (4650 Seamans Center). 

In this talk, Pamela Flash (University of Minnesota) describes what can happen when faculty colleagues within departments talk candidly about what they see (and hope to see) in student writing. Her work with scores of undergraduate departments reveals that conflicting conceptions of “writing,” coupled with a lack of awareness about where and how writing is being addressed within departmental curricula, can exhaust individual course instructors and impede students’ ability to develop as discipline-relevant communicators. Drawing from her work developing, implementing, and assessing the faculty-driven Writing-Enriched Curriculum (WEC) model, she’ll propose methods for moving writing out of isolated courses and into networked curricula.

Sponsored by the University of Iowa Writing Center, the Hanson Center for Communication, and the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies