Day One - December 8

An Overview to Writing-across-the-Curriculum

OPENING DISCUSSION AND GOAL SETTING

Where are you with numbers?

INTRODUCTION TO WRITING-ACROSS-THE-CURRICULUM

Stages of development: Novice to expert writing

Some general principles for teaching academic writing in the disciplines

ISSUES IN ASSIGNMENT DESIGN

Thinking rhetorically about Assignment Design: Five variations on the same assignment

Findings from the WPA/NSSE research project on writing and deep learning

Designing "meaning-constructing" writing prompts: Give your students a "RAFT
and a "TIP"

"INTERACTIVE WRITING ACTIVITES": LOW-STAKES TASKS FOR INQUIRY AND ENGAGEMENT

Powerful homework: Thinking pieces and microthemes

Microtheme tasks or thought pieces based on a table

Example of a "backward designed" assignment sequence

PREPARATION FOR TOMORR0W: PLANNING QUANTITATIVE ENCOUNTERS

Please read Joanna Wolfe, "Rhetorical Numbers: A Case for Quantitative Writing in the Composition Classroom," College Composition and Communication, 61.3 2010: 452-452.

Please read Neil Lutsky, "Arguing with Numbers: A Rationale and Suggestions for Teaching Quantitative Reasoning through Argument and Writing," in Calculation vs. Context: Quantitative Literacy and Its Implications for Teacher Education, Madison and Steen eds., Mathematical Association of America, 2008.

Work on your project for the workshop. If you are a non-numbers person in a non-numbers discipline, can you think of a way to provide a low-stakes QuIRK encounter that fits your course?

Day Two - December 9

From Story Problems to Messy Problems: Using Numbers in a Rhetorical World

OPENING DISCUSSION

SESSION WITH NEIL LUTSKY: "QR QUESTIONS AT THE READY (Acrobat (PDF) 13MB Dec9 10)"

QuIRK GOES TO SEATTLE: SOME QUANTITATIVE REASONING ASSIGNMENTS FROM SEATTLE UNIVERSITY

Telling an energy story with words and graphics (includes rubric and table)

Thinking rhetorically about numbers and information literacy (economics)

Example of a reading guide for a scientific article

STUDIO WORKSHOP FOR YOUR OWN PROJECT/ASSIGNMENT

Day Three - December 10

Using Teacher-Time Efficiently to Draw Out Your Students' Best Work

"MEANING-CONSTRUCTING TASKS": SHARPENING ASSIGNMENTS

A first-year seminar assessment project at Seattle University

SOME TIME-SAVING STRATEGIES FOR COACHING/MARKING/GRADING STUDENT WRITING

Nutshelling exercise to promote focus

Reader-based feedback: Giving movies of your mind

Minimal marking: From first-order to lower-order concerns

Check sheet for peer-review of an assignment handout

STUDIO WORKSHOP AND FINAL SHARING