Writing in the Discipline

1. Writing in the Discipline - Using E-Portfolio to Improve Your Students' Writing Skills
Free Lunch to the first 10 faculty who RSVP to Cynthia Dobbs at cdobbs@pacific.edu
Date/Time: Tuesday, February 24, 12-1pm
Jon Schamber and Sandy Mahoney
This workshop will offer faculty several models for incorporating the e-Portfolio to encourage substantive revision, constructive peer review, and critical reflection.
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2. Writing in the Discipline - Best Practices in Designing a Writing-Intensive Course: an SIS Case Study
Date/Time: Monday, March 16, 4:00-5:00 pm
Analiese Richard and Arturo Giraldez
This workshop will show faculty how two pros from the School of International Studies co-designed and are teaching the writing- and research-intensive course, Contemporary Perspectives in World History. Faculty will take away ideas on how best to structure research assignments.

3. Writing in the Discipline - Developing Grading Rubrics in the Social Sciences
Date/Time: Tuesday, March 17, 12:00-1:00 PM
Jeff Becker and Paul Turpin

4. Writing in the Discipline - Writing-to-Learn Assignments Throughout the Disciplines
Date/Time: Monday, April 6, 4:00-5:00 PM
Cynthia Dobbs
This workshop will showcase effective writing-to-learn assignments used nationally in all disciplines, from psychology to biology to history to Classics. Faculty should also bring their own in-class assignments to share.

5. Writing in the Discipline - Using Writing to Teach Math and Science
Date/Time: Monday, April 20, 4:00-5:00 pm
Chris Goff and Kirk Land