Workshops and Seminars

The Center designs workshops and seminars for individual departments, groups of departments, campuses, and the University. To request that a workshop or seminar for a specific group of faculty or on a specific topic, contact the Center's staff.

We are eager to create workshops and seminars that you would find helpful. We can fashion customized workshops for individual departments, groups of departments, individual campuses. And we welcome you suggestions for workshops and seminars we might offer to the entire University.

To make a request or offer a suggestion, send us an email or call 529-6100. If you wish, we'd also be glad to send you email announcements of events we sponsor.

Topics covered in our past workshops include the following:

• Achieving course goals through writing
• Writing and students' intellectual development
• Calibrated Peer Review (an online program)
• Commenting on student writing
• Elements of an effective writing assignment
• Grading-establishing, communicating, and applying criteria
• Guiding students through large writing assignments
• Informal, ungraded writing activities that enhance student writing ability
• Lab reports
• Plagiarism
• Reducing the paper load for instructors
• Student peer review
• Technology that increases student writing and conserves faculty time