Writing Across the Curriculum: Intro to

Writing in the Stockton Curriculum for Preceptors and

Teachers

Fall 2014

Communication skills are one of Stockton’s Essential Learning Outcomes

(ELO)

O Oral communication

O Written communication

O Multimedia communication

Listening/Reading/Viewing/Speaking/Writing/Designing

Communication includes

O Awareness of audience and purpose, including communicating with people outside the classroom

O Ability to summarize, synthesize, integrate, analyze sources

O Ability to organize informationO Oral delivery skillsO Integrating visualsO Standard edited English

Communication is taught across the curriculum

O First time freshmen students at Stockton students work on oral and written communication in their first year seminar and take one W1 class their first year

O All Stockton students must earn a C or better in 1 W1 course and 3 W1 or W2 courses. W2 classes cannot be transferred into Stockton.

O One of the W1 or W2 classes students take must be at the 3000 or 4000 level.

W1 vs. W2OW1, Writing is Primary—the class

is about writing. Usually, writing should be in the title. On the IDEA, faculty would say that developing communication skill is essential.

OW2, writing is Secondary. The class includes instruction in writing and 30% or more of a student’s grade is based on writing, but the class is about something else. On the IDEA, faculty would say communication is important or essential

Who teaches W1 courses?

Core Writing Program faculty, housed in First Year Studies in General Studies, teach many writing classes.

Many W1 courses are also offered through Literature faculty, by Pam

Cross, and by faculty across the curriculum

First Year writing courses

College WritingRhetoric and CompositionArgument and PersuasionIntro to Research

These are heavily taught by adjuncts. We welcome faculty across the disciplines. If you are interested in teaching one, talk to Emari DiGiorgio (Fall 2014-Spring 2016).

Sample W1 courses across the curriculum

Humor Writing/Writing Screenplays/Why Poetry Matters/Professional Writing and Design/Writing about Nature/Writing about Family/Public Relations and Advertising Writing/Grant Writing/Writing for the Health Professions/Creative Writing

Writing minorO Students who take 5

W1 courses, including a capstone class, and meet other requirements, can earn a minor in Writing.

O If you are interested in teaching a W1, contact Judy Copeland (Fall 2014-Spring 2016).

We need your help, W2O Hundreds of W2 courses are

taught at Stockton by faculty across the disciplines.

O In these courses, students further develop their writing skills.

O YOU can teach these courses: Algebraic Problem Solving, Experimental Psychology, Ornithology, and more.

To teach a W2O Complete an application and send

it to the Writing Across the Curriculum Coordinator (Heather McGovern, Fall 2014-Spring 2016), for review by the Writing Advisory Council.

O Include a policy statement/syllabus and sample assignment

O We look for writing with feedback, guidance for students, multiple writing opportunities for students

Who needs to apply to teach a W2

O Anyone teaching any course as a W2 for the first time, even if you’ve previously taught other courses with a W2 or if others have previously taught this course as a W2.

O No courses are intrinsically W2—each course/instructor combination needs approval

O In contrast, W1 course approval goes with the course, rather than the instructor/course combination.

Resources for faculty and students

O Want help teaching writing or designing a writing class? Talk to me or the appropriate writing coordinator.

O Use the Writing Center and Pam Cross as a resource for your students.

O Use the Purdue OWL

Stockton Resourceso How to propose a W1 or W2:

General Studies website o Writing Program Core Faculty: Judy

Copeland, Emari DiGiorgio, GT Lenard, Heather McGovern, plus Jack Connor (retiring spring 2015), Penny Dugan (retiring spring 2015), John O’Hara, First Year Studies, and Pam Cross, Coordinator of the Writing Center

o Writing Program Website, or search “writing” on the Stockton website