Writing Across the Curriculum

Would you like to improve the writing of your students? Improve their learning of your lecture material? Are you looking for new ways to engage your students in your course materials? Writing Across the Curriculum is a University of Alberta program that can help instructors and the departments in the following ways.

We are happy to meet to talk about ways to incorporate informal (short, impromptu) writing assignments into any class, small or large. Will will also review via email any assignment you give students that has a writing component to help make it clearer for students and to help develop grading rubrics to improve the speed and accuracy of grading. We will also visit your class to help students get started on your writing assignments.

We hold workshops on creating good writing assignments, host discussions of how to improve the writing of students in your programs, and conduct reviews of writing assignments in your departments courses to identify exactly what your students are being asked to write—and to ensure that they have access to resources on how to write (online and on-campus).