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Writing Committee

Meetings:

The Writing Committee meeting are alternating Mondays via Zoom from 10:00AM - 11:00AM. 
Contact the Faculty Senate Office to be added to the distribution list.

Responsibilities:

The Writing Committee is primarily responsible for the ongoing evaluation and assessment of General Education writing requirements. The Writing Committee advocates for effective writing instruction, curriculum, and assessment. In addition, the Writing Committee reviews course proposals for the writing designation as well as transfer equivalency appeals for writing courses. The Writing Committee also monitors the programs of the Writing Center as well as the University-wide Program-level Writing Assessment, and collaborates with campus groups to provide faculty development workshops.

Information & Forms for Review of Writing Courses:

Writing Course Guidelines
Guidelines
FAQs
Rubric used to approve Writing Across the Curriculum Courses
Rubric used to approve Writing in the Disciplines Courses
Guide for Distributed Writing in the Disciplines Courses

Writing Across the Curriculum Course Exemption Appeal Guidelines
Writing in the Disciplines Substitution Request/
Rolling Review Form - Writing Across the Curriculum Course
Rolling Review Form - Writing in the Disciplines Course
Rolling Review Template forms and samples

Writing Resources for Faculty

Writing Center Resources for Teaching Writing

• Bigger isn’t Better: Soliciting Sophisticated, Rigorous Writing through Short Assignments
• So You Are’t a Writing Teacher?  Stress-free Strategies for Using Writing to Help Students Learn in Any Discipline
• Speaking the Same Language: Strategies for Responding to Writing in the Sciences and Beyond
• Not on the Same Page?:  Defining your Assignment Expectations and Using Rubrics to Communicate Them
• How Rubrics Help Students and Teachers
• Providing Productive Feedback in a Reasonable Amount of Time 
• Revision Strategies that Work