Twenty St. John’s University faculty participated in the 2011
Summer Faculty Writing Institute at the Paris campus from Sunday,
July 31st to Saturday, August 6th.
The institute is both a writing retreat and writing across the
curriculum workshop. Over the seven days of the institute faculty
have designated time to work on their own writing and opportunities
to discuss writing and research. Faculty also share drafts in
progress with their colleagues.
To reflect on how they teach with writing and how their
undergraduate and graduate students learn through writing, faculty
read about best practices in the teaching of writing and consider
student writers’ experiences across the curriculum. With
facilitators from the Institute for Writing Studies and their
colleagues, faculty reflect on the writing they have previously
required of their students and explore when and why those
assignments did – or didn’t -- engage students and support
students’ learning. Over the week faculty
develop new assignment sequences, learn new ways of responding to
student writing, practice what is necessary for effective student
peer review and writing workshops, and experiment with a variety of
informal writing for learning and reflection. Through the
entire institute faculty talk about the relationship between their
own scholarly and creative writing and the writing of their
students and compare what is required of students in different
courses across the curriculum.
2011 Participants (click on a name to read
about how the faculty member is utilizing writing for teaching and
learning in 2011-2012)
Alla Baeva; College of Professional
Studies, Communications, Journalism, and Media Studies
Brett Elizabeth Blake; The School of
Education, Curriculum and Instruction
Ellen
Boegel; College of Professional Studies,
Criminal Justice and Legal Studies
Barrett Brenton; St. John's College,
Sociology and Anthropology
Natalie Byfield; St. John's College,
Sociology and Anthropology
Timothy Carter; St. John's College,
Biological Sciences
Tina Chen, Manager, Paris Campus
Phyllis
Conn; St. John's College/Institute for Core
Studies, Discover New York
Tracey-Anne
Cooper; St. John's College, History
Zachary Davis; St. John's College,
Philosophy
Jonathan
Fowler; St. John's College/Institute for Core
Studies, Scientific Inquiry
Flora Keshishian; St. John's College,
Rhetoric, Communication, and Theatre
Susie Pak; St. John's College,
History
Somnath Pal; College of Pharmacy,
Pharmacy and Administrative Sciences
Douglas Rasmussen; St. John's College,
Philosophy
Kevin Rioux; St. John's College, Library
and Information Science
Joseph Serafin; St. John's College,
Chemistry
Katherine Shelfer; St. John's College,
Library and Information Science
Scyatta Wallace; St. John's College,
Psychology
Enju Wang; St. John's College,
Chemistry
Robin Wellington; St. John's College,
Psychology
Facilitators
Anne Ellen Geller; Director, Writing Across the
Curriculum; Associate Professor, English
Derek Owens; Vice Provost, Director, Institute for
Writing Studies; Professor, English
Harry Denny; Director, University Writing Centers;
Associate Professor, English
Required Texts for the 2011 Summer Faculty Writing Institute
Bean, John C. Engaging Ideas: The Professor’s Guide to
Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking and Active Learning in the
Classroom. San Franciso, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2011.
Smitherman, Geneva and Victor Villanueva. Language Diversity
in the Classroom: From Intention to Purpose. Carbondale, IL:
Southern Illinois U Press, 2003.
Zawacki, Terry Myers and Paul M. Rogers. Writing Across the
Curriculum: A Critical Sourcebook. Boston, MA: Bedford St.
Martins, 2012.
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