WRITING EMPHASIS
INSTRUCTOR APPROVAL FORM
Instructions:
Please complete the approval form and send as a Microsoft Word e-mail attachment to Terry Beck: beck.terr@uwlax.edu The Writing Emphasis Subcommittee will review the applications and recommend approval to the General Education Committee. Once approved, you may elect to teach any of your courses in writing emphasis mode to help students meet the General Education requirements.
Name
Department
Phone
Participation in faculty seminar on Writing Emphasis.
An instructor who intends to teach one or more writing emphasis courses
must participate in a faculty seminar offered on campus; however, instructors
who have comparable background or experience may be exempted from the
faculty seminar requirement.
- Have you participated
in a UW-L writing emphasis workshop? _________Date __No
- If not, describe your
background and experience pertinent to teaching a writing emphasis
course.
How you will use writing.
Please select a course that you intend to teach as a writing emphasis
course and answer the questions below in relation to that course.
Retype the questions and attach your responses to this form.
WRITING-TO-LEARN (INFORMAL WRITING)
- Describe the types of
informal writing assignments.
- Explain how the informal
writing will enhance students' learning and thinking in the course.
- Indicate the frequency
of the informal writing tasks.
- Describe how you will
manage the informal writing throughout the course (e.g., to what
extent you will read & give feedback, whether students will read
one another's informal writing, etc.)
- Describe the guidelines
and criteria for evaluating students' informal writing.
FORMAL WRITING
- Describe the formal writing
assignment(s) that will constitute the 10 or more polished pages
of writing.
- Indicate the audiences
that students will address and the stylistic conventions they will
follow in the formal writing.
- Describe the models and
examples of formal writing that you will provide students.
- Describe the types of
feedback students will receive.
- Describe the guidelines
and criteria for evaluating students' writing that you will provide
them.
EXAMPLES OF COURSE
MATERIAL
Please attach the following
material:
- A copy of the material
you provide students at the beginning of the semester which describes
the writing emphasis aspects of the course and explains the distinction
between formal and informal writing.
- A copy of the typical
formal writing assignment that you will use in the course.
