Reimagining the Present, Looking to the Future--Together


Outline of keynote address for Writing Program Fall Retreat
Syracuse University, 24 August 2000

STATE OF THE PROGRAM

  • WAC (writing across the curriculum)
  • Writing Center
  • Technology position

    FUTURE OF THE PROGRAM

    1. Academic writing
    2. Multiple literacies
    3. Technology
    4. Textual pedagogy: grammar, style, plagiarism (writing from sources)
    5. Multiple genres
    6. International students
    7. Outcomes assessment, including shared portfolios
    8. WAC
    9. Writing Center

    Discussion facilitators

  • Chris Boucher, teaching with technology
  • Bruce Pegg, Writing Center
  • Xin Gale & Jon Benda, international students
  • Joddy Murray, multiple literacies
  • Margaret Spector, WAC
  • Tracy Carrick, textual issues
  • Seth Kahn, academic writing and discourse
  • Dana Harrington, multiple genres
  • Amanda Brown, outcomes assessment

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