PLEASE NOTE: All workshops are now available remotely
The below workshops are offered in two ways: 1) A writing consultant can come to your existing departmental meetings / orientation to tailor one of these workshops to your faculty’s specific goals and assignments. To request a workshop, please contact WID Director Jono Mischkot, jfm274@nyu.edu 2) The Expository Writing Department hosts various developmental workshops a few times a semester open to professors and TAs of all disciplines. For dates / times or to sign up for a workshop, please see Upcoming Events.
- Creating Community from a Distance: How to Engage Students Online: This Zoom workshop highlights strategies for promoting student engagement from a distance learning perspective. How, we will ask, can we take what’s best about our classrooms and create a similar environment online? In breakout rooms via Zoom, we will discuss a variety of synchronous and asynchronous options to foster students’ deep learning. We will then open up the discussion to share successes and troubleshoot stumbling blocks we’ve experienced (or anticipate experiencing) as we and our students face this unprecedented challenge together.
- No Time for Grammar! Best Practices for Teaching Writing to Multilingual Students: Looking at the latest research on language acquisition, this workshop promotes a better understanding of our multilingual students’ challenges. We will also consider best practices for working with multilingual students on issues of grammar, syntax, lexicon, and acclimating to American academic conventions. Finally, we will offer suggestions for commenting on drafts to address both micro (grammatical) and macro (rhetorical) concerns.
- Efficient Feedback: Grade faster, Comment Less, and Get Better Papers: This workshop explores time-saving strategies for supporting student thinking and writing before the final product is due, thereby minimizing the need for exhaustive commenting on final papers. We will also model best practices for composing clear grading rubrics and focused feedback.
- Did They Read the Assignment? Designing Effective Prompts for Students: Do the terms used in our prompts meaningfully represent to our students the rhetorical conventions of our discipline? By reflecting on our course goals, looking at model prompts, and discussing our discipline’s characteristic modes of thinking, we will review strategies for composing more explicit and transparent assignments that encourage better student writing.
- Sea of Information: Teaching Students to Research Responsibly, Strategically, and Creatively: It’s not uncommon for students to only click on the first few sources that pop up on a Google search; it’s also not uncommon for students to only read and cite from the first few paragraphs of a given source. This workshop will explore innovative approaches to designing scaffolded research assignments that promote genuine inquiry, recursivity, and thoughtful engagement with outside sources.
- Are Those Your Words? Addressing Plagiarism in the Age of AI: This workshop will examine how plagiarism is compounded and complicated by ChapGPT and other AI tools. While sharing our own encounters with student plagiarism, reading the latest research, and reviewing different departmental policies, we will brainstorm new ways to determine and effectively address plagiarism, seeing it, in part, as an opportunity to teach rather than a transgression to punish. In turn, we will offer strategies for creating writing assignments that are not-so-easily replicated by AI as well as brainstorm ways to productively experiment with AI in the classroom.
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Contact
If you are interested in learning more about our workshops, please contact Jono F. Mischkot, Director of Writing in the Disciplines: jfm274@nyu.edu