Title:  Writing to Learn: Approaches to Making Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Work for Teachers and Students

Date: April 25, 2014, 8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location: University Hall, ADP Center 1143

Facilitator: Dr. Kate Ronald, Professor of English, Miami University

Description:

This workshop session, co-sponsored by the MSU Department of English and the MSUNER, is focused on how teachers of all disciplines at the high school and college levels can more effectively incorporate writing into their classes, "Writing to Learn: Approaches to Making Writing-Across-the-Curriculum work for Teachers and Students" will offer concrete strategies for how to use writing as a method for delivering and assessing course content. In alignment with both the Common Core's emphasis on students being able to write arguments based on discipline-specific content and PARCC assessments that measure written language and expression, Professor Ronald will address the challenges and rewards of incorporating writing into courses across the disciplines.

A professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, Kate Ronald is the director of the Center for Writing Excellence and former director of the Howe Writing Initiative in the Farmer School of Business. She is the author and co-editor of four books, including Available Means: An Anthology of Women's Rhetoric(s); Teaching Rhetorica; and Farther Along: Transforming Dichotomies in Rhetoric and Composition. Professor Ronald regularly teaches courses in writing pedagogy, rhetorical theory, and writing center practice. She has won numerous awards for her teaching, including Miami's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2012. 

This session is free to MSU faculty and educators from MSUNER partner schools.

Breakfast and lunch will be provided.

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