Updates on UMUCs Writing Program

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Title: Updates on UMUCs Writing Program

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Updates on UMUCs Writing Program

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WRTG designator

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New numbering system

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Name changes

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Major Course Revision

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WRTG 391 Revision, cont.

Essays (4)
Summary/synthesis essay
Critique essay
Persuasive essay
Problem/solution essay
Textbooks
Behrens, Lauren and Leonard Rosen. Writing and
Reading Across the Curriculum. 10th ed. New York
Pearson Longman, 2008.
Hacker, Diana. The Bedford Handbook. 7th ed.
Boston New York Bedford/St. Martins, 2006.

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Common Final Exams

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Logistics of Common Final Exams

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Logistics of Common Final Exams

All three versions will be posted into WRTG 999
F2f instructors download them, print them, and
administer them in the last week of class
Online instructors will get the completed exams
online (if students take the computerized
version) or by snail mail in a packet (if
students take the pencil-and-paper version)

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Increased caps on writing courses

The cap from spring to summer was increased from
22 to 24.
The cap for the grammar courses has increased
from 30 to 34 (WRTG 288 and WRTG 388)

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Expectations for Writing Faculty

Face-to-face faculty members are expected to use
the online Web Tycho class site for
the class syllabus (using the Syllabus Tool)
the class gradebook
class announcements
Online faculty are expected to
be present in their classrooms several times a
week
write announcements in their classrooms on at
least a weekly basis
design and hold several conferences (discussions)
each week
use the gradebook for assessing student writing
and other activities
Make their courses consistent with the Writing
Program Mission

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The Writing Program Mission

Our Mission
To help students engage as active participants in
learning their subject matter
To provide students with ways of thinking and
writing to help them understand and learn their
disciplines
To help students learn the conventions of
discourse that will define them as professionals
in their chosen fields.
Originally articulated by Jim Booth

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Writing Program Mission, cont.

The Writing Program courses are based upon two
powerful ideas about writing instruction
Writing is a process. In both academic and
professional writing classrooms
Students gain increased control over their own
writing processes, resources, and strategies.
Students come to understand the value of drafting
and revision based upon thoughtful feedback by
different types of readers, especially writing
faculty.
Students develop a repertoire of strategies to
employ in different writing situations.
Writing takes place within contexts. Writing
faculty members help students understand the
concept of discourse communities so that they
may write with suitable attention to audience and
writing situation.