Kathryn Kerr, English
In this session, the presenter/story teller will share tales from the writing classroom that have implications for the way we all think about student writing. Session participants will be encouraged to consider these stories of life-changing writing experiences and engage in a collaborative consideration of the ways in which faculty in any discipline can support engaging, productive writing experiences for their students.
Janice Neuleib, English
Students often see the need to use sources in their writing as an invitation to cut and paste a variety of sources into an unappealing, incoherent, or even unethical (in terms of its use of resources) product. English department writing courses have proposed more effective formats for years, and these approaches are finally finding their way into high school classrooms, thanks to a new Advanced Placement Language & Composition Exam that requires students to produce "researched writing" that takes an intelligently reasoned perspective, writes to and about it, and then backs it up with appropriate documentation, including images of many varieties. This session will demonstrate how to move from "the research paper" assignments to assignments that promote "researched writing" and help students “compose” while avoiding the temptation to "cut and paste."
