Teaching Writing in the Disciplines
Offered in Fall and Winter terms
This one-credit theory and practice course supports GSIs serving as instructors and graders of undergraduate courses that fulfill the Upper-Level Writing Requirement. In this course, students develop strategies for effectively teaching academic writing to upper-level undergraduate students. Our topics cover grading and responding to student writing, addressing linguistic diversity in student writing, dealing with issues of academic honesty, creating scaffolded writing tasks, and guiding students through the writing process, from topic generation to revision.
Discussion with your fellow GSIs is also an important element of Writing 993. Through in-class conversations and course discussion boards, you will hear a variety of ideas and strategies from your colleagues that you can use in developing your own pedagogical practices.
This is a Credit/No-Credit class. To earn credit, you will need to:
- complete course readings and activities,
- complete responses on course discussion boards
- regularly attend class meetings
- attend at least one one-to-one meeting with the course instructor
