Writing in the Disciplines promotes effective, intellectually engaged student writing by offering instructional support for students and development opportunities for faculty. Our mission is to encourage conversations and moments of collaboration across departments at NYU to emphasize how writing and communication are central to students’ academic and professional success. In turn, we help students build on what they learn in introductory writing courses, and become increasingly skilled at the writing practices unique to their chosen disciplines. Any course or department is eligible to receive free support from one of our WID consultants, who are full-time faculty with expertise in writing pedagogy.
WID offers the following services:
- Open workshops for faculty and TAs
- Open workshops for students in disciplinary writing
- One-to-one consultations on course design, syllabi design, assignment design, and devising assessment parameters