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Resources for Writing Faculty

The ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Writing Program offers many resources to support you in teaching writing to students across and inside the disciplines. During May Development week and at least once a semester we lead workshops that support faculty who want to learn to teach students to write.  On this page, we have included resources that can assist you as a teacher and resources that you can use to assist your students and in your own course design.

Writing Center

Reasons to refer a student here:

• For help with higher order concerns, such as content, thesis, organization, and ideation (invention)
• For help with lower order concerns, such as grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, and style
• To provide students with a sense of audience--another pair of eyes on their work
• Contact Ryan Rickrode, Director of the Writing Center, for more information

The Director of Writing

Designed as a resource to assist you in your writing instruction:

• Maintaining a frequently updated Canvas resource site housing resources, example assignments, rubrics, class activities, and other writing materials for instructor use
• Workshops and other support programming to eductate faculty in trends and best practices in writing instruction
• One-on-one instructor support to address specific classroom needs
• Contact , Director of Writing, for more information

The Teaching and Learning Initiative

Designed as a resource for teachers, this initiative provides:

• Regular programming on teaching strategies and practices
• Yearly write-ins to help professors focus on accomplishing academic work
• Contact Cynthia Wells, Director of Faculty Development, for more information

Reference Librarians

Reasons to refer a student here:

• When a student needs help understanding how to find sources
• When a student needs help evaluating sources
• When a student struggles with citation styles and formatting
• Contact the Murray Library for more information