This fall's Writing Across the Curriculum faculty workshop tackles the topic of responding to student writing. The workshop will be facilitated by Alfred Guy, R.W.B., Director of the Writing Center at Yale University.
Guy will lead a workshop intended to help faculty find ways to respond to student writing effectively, without spending extra time on feedback.
Registration for this event is closed.
Location to be announced
Time: 10 am - 1 pm
Becoming fluent in academic discourse: Stories from a multilingual campus
Co-sponsored by WAC and FYI
This workshop explores the development of fluency in academic discourse, by examining how students perceive this process and what teachers can do to facilitate it. Academic prose (and its discipline specific variations) is a code that none of us speak — or write — natively. We will attempt to identify the hurdles faced by all learners, and the variables that promote success.
The workshop will also include a brief presentation of this year's issue of Revisions, guest edited by John Troynaski and this year's team of CUNY Writing Fellows.
Participants receive a $200 stipend and a copy of this year's issue of Revisions. Lunch will be served.
Registration for this event is now closed. We have relocated to the Agora.
Time: 11:30 am to 2:30 pm
Location: Agora Cafe, Student Union
Workshop facilitators
Martin Braun, Mathematics, FYI
Ann Davison, English, FYI
Eva Fernández, Linguistics & Communication Disorders, Center for Teaching & Learning
Sue Lantz Goldhaber, English, CESL, WAC Faculty Partner
Tsai-Shiou Hsieh, WAC Assessment Coordinator
Margaret Mehran, English Language Institute
Ken Nielsen, CUNY WAC Writing Fellow
John Troynaski, Writing Center
Writing Across the Curriculum's Faculty Partners and Writing Fellows meet.
Time: 12 - 3pm
Location: Razran 318
Writing Across the Curriculum's Faculty Partners and Writing Fellows meet.
Time: 12 - 2pm
Location: Razran 318
Speaker: Hilary Chute
A lecture sponsored by the English Department and Writing Across the Curriculum
Hillary Chute is a Junior Fellow in literature in the Harvard Society of Fellows. She earned her Ph.D at Rutgers University, where she developed the university's first courses in studying contemporary graphic narrative. She is currently writing a book about nonfiction graphic narratives by women. She is also working with Art Spiegelman as Associate Editor of his book project MetaMaus (about his Pulitzer-Prize winning graphic narrative Maus), which will be published by Pantheon in 2009. Her essays have appeared in Mfs: Modern Fiction Studies (where she also co-edited a 2006 special issue on "Graphic Narrative"), Twentieth-Century
Literature, American Periodicals, Women's Studies Quarterly, Literature and Medicine, Postmodern Culture, and PMLA. For many years she has also been a freelance journalist, writing about books and music for venues such as the Village Voice, Time Out New York, and The Believer.
Location: President's Conference Rooms, Rosenthal Library
Time: 3-5 PM (including a reception)
Writing Across the Curriculum's Faculty Partners and Writing Fellows meet.
Time: 12 - 2pm
Location: Razran 318
Writing Across the Curriculum's Faculty Partners and Writing Fellows meet.
Time: 12 - 2pm
Location: Razran 318
The CUNY WAC/WID Program is pleased to announce:
This Is How We Write:
Literacy in an Age of New Media
Richard E. Miller
Chair and Professor of English
Executive Director of the Plangere Writing Center
Rutgers University
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December 12th, 3:00 pm
Proshansky Auditorium
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
RSVP: zhanna.kushmakova@mail.cuny.edu
Writing Across the Curriculum's Faculty Partners and Writing Fellows meet.
Time: 2 - 4pm
Location: Razran 318
Revolutionary Grammar
Faculty are invited to participate in an upcoming workshop hosted by the Writing Across the Curriculum program. Faculty Associates from Bard College's Institute for Writing & Thinking will lead two concurrent all-day workshops entitled "Revolutionary Grammar" on Friday, February 20.
Everyone—inside and outside the academic community—has an opinion about grammar. Parents, CEOs, and of course teachers worry that students graduating from high school and college do not know grammar. But what does it mean to know grammar? If it were simply a matter of learning rules, teachers would not be struggling to correct grammar in paper after paper. In any case, basic grammatical rules don't stick.
This workshop looks at both philosophical and practical questions surrounding the teaching of grammar, investigating connections between philosophical and pedagogical approaches. What assumptions about written language's relationship to grammar do we bring to our teaching of writing? Using diverse literary texts and our own writing, we ask what grammar is, what it is for, what it contributes to the making of meaning and to creative expression, and how it fits into the more fluid models for teaching writing that we value. Workshop participants learn practical approaches to teaching grammar that do not focus on rules so much as incorporate rules into students' intuitions and habits as writers. This workshop is for teachers of English, composition, or grammar, as well as for any teacher who addresses issues of grammar in whatever subject they teach.
Time: 9:30 am to 5:00 pm
Location: President's Conference Rooms #s 1 and 2 (Rosenthal Library)
Writing Across the Curriculum's Faculty Partners and Writing Fellows meet.
Time: 2 - 4pm
Location: Razran 318
Writing Across the Curriculum's Faculty Partners and Writing Fellows meet.
Time: 9:30 - 4pm
Location: Razran 318
Writing Across the Curriculum's Faculty Partners and Writing Fellows meet.
Time: 12 - 2pm
Location: Razran 318
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All students, faculty, and staff are invited.
Speaker: Matthew Boyd Goldie (Rider University)
A lecture sponsored by the English Department and Writing Across the Curriculum
We tend to think of an island as enclosed and isolated, as a paradise or a hell of solitude, a jail or a fortress. Science has regarded islands as ideal isolated sites for observation and as fragile ecologies that can be easily destroyed by outside contact. Perceptions of physical isolation extend to the temporal status of islands so that their cultures and inhabitants are thought of as cut off from progress, modernity, even time itself. These ways of thinking about islands have a history that begins in the Early Modern period with works such as Thomas More’s Utopia, William Shakespeare’s Tempest, and John Donne’s Meditation 17. This tradition continues in modified ways in modern theory by Gilles Deleuze, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, and others.
But how else might we consider islands? Recent island theory by Pacific Island writers, by scientists, and by others challenges preconceptions about insular space and time, and encourages us to contemplate islands in other ways. However, even these reconsiderations overlook an older history of understanding islands. Greek, Roman, and medieval writings about islands and maps can help us question and think through ideas about what constitutes a continent versus an island, how we consider individual territories around the world, how we orient ourselves on the earth, and ultimately how we might recognize a homeland.
Goldie is a scholar of medieval literature and author of Middle English Literature: A Sourcebook (Blackwell) and the forthcoming The Idea of the Antipodes: Place, People, and Voices. His talk draws on this new book and will focus on representations of islands in literature.
Location: Q-side (southeast corner of Dining Hall)
Time: 4:30 - 6:30pm
Writing Across the Curriculum's Faculty Partners and Writing Fellows meet.
Time: 12 - 2pm
Location: Razran 318
Faculty are invited to attend Writing Across the Curriculum's Fall 2009 faculty workshop.
University courses often ask students to use sources (academic essays, books, newspaper and magazine articles, etc.) to join disciplinary debates and conversations. This workshop will focus on ways to help students "break into the conversation"-- the phrase composition scholar Mark Gaipa uses to describe the variety of strategies writers use when they work with sources.
A limited number of seats are available. If you would like to attend, please register online as soon as possible by clicking here.
Time: 12 noon - 2 pm
Location: President's Conference Room #1, 5th Floor Library
Writing Across the Curriculum's Faculty Partners and Writing Fellows meet.
Time: 12 - 2pm
Location: Razran 318
Writing Across the Curriculum's Faculty Partners and Writing Fellows meet.
Time: 12 - 2pm
Location: Razran 318
Writing Across the Curriculum's Faculty Partners and Writing Fellows meet.
Time: 12 - 2pm
Location: Razran 318
