REMINDER: FACULTY SEMINAR ON WRITING HANDBOOK (11/22)

The next faculty seminar will focus on use in various
disciplines of the writing handbook recently adopted by the English
Department, as well as more general issues related to writing across
the curriculum.

It will take place tomorrow in the Faculty/Staff Lounge (VC 14-290)
from 10:00 - 12:00, with refreshments available starting at 9:30. The
handbook, Ann Raimes, "Keys for Writers" Houghton-Mifflin), is
required of all entering freshmen and will be used in subsequent
semesters as well.

Faculty teaching freshmen courses should have received the
handbook; copies will be available at the seminar.

To facilitate discussion we had asked faculty send a student writing
sample electronically to Prof. Gerard Dalgish, the English
Department's Acting Writing Director:

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At the seminar he will demonstrate ways in which "Keys" might be
used to address the problem. If you have not already sent such an
example, please feel free to bring one on disk to the seminar.

Some of the topics/issues that might come up in discussion:
- how Raimes's approach compares/contrasts with approaches
typically used in the "content" discipline (e.g., Raimes's definition of
primary source/text) - stages and strategies for developing ideas for
papers/essays

- use of Raimes's handouts/supplementary materials
for different disciplines (e.g., use of templates for source
documentation in the different manual styles: MLA, APA, Chicago, etc.)

- developing a database or repository for faculty-shared materials:
anything from favorite assignments to correction symbols with
references to sections in "Keys."

- use of affiliated assessment tests
- availability of online tutoring, Houghton-Mifflin's electronic tutoring
"e-structors" vis Smarthinking (sic), and the anti-plagiarism device,
Turnitin.com.