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Faculty in a Writing Across the Curriculum classroom

Teach, Write, Teach Writing

The Writing Across the Curriculum program provides support for faculty university-wide in implementing writing into their courses. The program aims to create and sustain a community of writers at Ä¢¹½tv.

If you have questions about WAC, please contact Bryna Siegel Finer at brynasf@iup.edu.

In fall 2012, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Office of the Provost committed to creating a university-wide initiative with a multi-faceted agenda:

Faculty Development

  • Provide faculty development for those teaching writing-intensive courses, including workshops and training for those interested in proposing writing-intensive courses
  • Provide support for all faculty across the university in implementing writing assignments into their courses

Writing Plan Consultation

  • Assist departments in creating Writing Plans to shift their curriculums to WAC
  • Help departments develop plans for assessing writing in their majors
  • Provide support and consultation to the university-wide Liberal Studies Committee as needed in revising writing requirements

Research

  • Create a research agenda for studying and understanding the effectiveness of how writing is taught and learned in the university curriculum
  • Assist faculty in creating individual research projects on how writing is taught and learned in their own classrooms
  • Continually collect data from students and faculty on their perceptions of how writing is taught and learned at Ä¢¹½tv

Bryna Finer teaching in a classroomWorkshops

  • Connect departments and/or colleges with consultants from professional settings or other universities who are experts in writing in specific fields and can come to Ä¢¹½tv
  • Provide workshops, seminars, and opportunities to meet with faculty to provide resources on the teaching of writing

Community Development

  • Foster a community of writers through various modes and media (such as contests, readings, workshops, newsletters, etc.)
  • And through relationships (with the Writing Center, the Ä¢¹½tv Libraries, and various departments across campus)

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News

Ä¢¹½tv Celebrates National Day on Writing for the 13th Year!

The Ä¢¹½tv Writing Across the Curriculum program, Kathleen Jones White Writing Center, and Ä¢¹½tv Libraries will host a virtual celebration of the National Day on Writing on Instagram the weekend of October 18-22!

  • 04 October 2024

Siegel Finer Promoted to Associate Editor of Journal

English department faculty member Bryna Siegel Finer (English) has taken on new roles at the journal Rhetoric of Health & Medicine and the book series Writing Spaces.

  • 26 January 2024

Siegel Finer Publishes Book on Women's Health Rhetoric

Bryna Siegel Finer, director of Undergraduate Writing Programs, published a new book, "Patients Making Meaning: Theorizing Sources of Information and Forms of Support in Women's Health," co-authored with Cathryn Molloy (University of Delaware) and Jamie White-Farnham (University of Wisconsin–Superior). 

  • 11 September 2023

Creating Effective Writing Assignments: Plagiarism-Proofing in the Modern Age

If your students seem to struggle with writing assignments, and you want to help them succeed, then come to this workshop.

  • 15 February 2023

National Day on Writing

The Ä¢¹½tv Writing Across the Curriculum program, Jones White Writing Center, Liberal Studies English program, and Ä¢¹½tv-NCTE will host a virtual celebration of the National Day on Writing on Wednesday, October 20, 2021.

  • 07 October 2021
  • Writing Across the Curriculum
  • Humanities and Social Sciences Building, 506X
    981 Grant St
     Indiana, PA 15705
  • Phone: 724-357-2267
Office Hours
Monday through Friday
9:00 a.m.–Noon
1:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.