Individual and Departmental Support | Writing in the Disciplines | The University of Vermont(title)

WID provides personalized writing and teaching consultations to individual faculty and departments. Instructors or departments from any discipline are welcome to request a meeting with the WID director or one of our WID Faculty Associates. Departments can also request customized workshops for their discipline.

Consultations

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We are happy to meet with you to discuss anything that is directly related to, or touches on, teaching writing. Topics might include:

  • curricular mapping
  • identifying disciplinary priorities for writing and information literacy
  • refining outcomes
  • (re)design of courses 
  • syllabi design
  • general education writing requirements
  • assignment/activity design
  • assignment sequencing
  • assessment (including rubric) design and planning
  • artificial intelligence
  • ways to teach writing
  • ways writing can help students
  • classroom challenges around writing

Workshops

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Individuals and groups of instructors are invited to attend any of our scheduled workshops and to suggest future topics. Departments can request discipline-specific versions of our workshop topics or request a workshop designed on a topic of their need. These are scheduled during a mutually agreed time and can sometimes be aligned with departmental meetings. Although the Undergraduate and Graduate Writing Centers typically work with faculty to arrange workshops in their courses for students, Writing in the Disciplines can arrange student workshops on special topics that the instructor has been exploring with WID. WID can also provide workshops to a department's TA's on teaching topics that help to align their work with that of the instructor.