{"id":15372,"date":"2013-09-05t08:49:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-05t13:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/?p=15372"},"modified":"2013-09-05t07:25:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05t12:25:25","slug":"conversations-on-teaching-writing-under-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/2013\/09\/conversations-on-teaching-writing-under-way\/","title":{"rendered":"conversations on teaching writing under way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/07\/09154610\/teaching-writing-learning-logo.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/9617656828_cda76c1c0c_m.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/events\/twl\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-attachment-id=\"14643\" data-permalink=\"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/events\/twl\/teaching-writing-learning-logo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/07\/09154610\/teaching-writing-learning-logo.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"496,498\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"teaching writing learning logo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/07\/09154610\/teaching-writing-learning-logo-300x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/07\/09154610\/teaching-writing-learning-logo.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14643\" title=\"teaching writing learning logo\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/07\/09154610\/teaching-writing-learning-logo-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/07\/09154610\/teaching-writing-learning-logo-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/07\/09154610\/teaching-writing-learning-logo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/07\/09154610\/teaching-writing-learning-logo-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/07\/09154610\/teaching-writing-learning-logo.jpg 496w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cteaching. writing. learning.,\u201d <\/strong>the new series of conversations on teaching writing across the campus, began last wednesday.\u00a0 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/emilyking\/\" target=\"_blank\">emily king<\/a> <\/strong>(english),<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/sociology\/vdos_people_richardlloyd.shtml\">richard lloyd<\/a> <\/strong>(sociology), and<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/ees\/people\/faculty\/jonathangilligan.php\">jonathan gilligan<\/a> <\/strong>(earth &amp; environmental sciences) were the invited guests for kick-off event entitled &#8220;starting the conversation: a panel on inspiring your students to write.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>emily emphasized the need to <strong>define \u201cexcellent writing\u201d in your class<\/strong>, as this definition will vary across levels and disciplines.\u00a0 she shared a wealth of concrete suggestions, addressing<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>how to prepare students for writing in your class (\u201cpractice the analysis in class that you will demand from them in their essays,\u201d create and share with students a grading rubric for writing in your class),<\/li>\n<li>how to help students during the drafting process (workshops, staggering deadlines, drawing on the writing studio and the <a href=\"http:\/\/researchguides.library.vanderbilt.edu\/fywsinstructor\">fyws instructor toolkit<\/a>), and<\/li>\n<li>how to help students make sense of your evaluation of their writing (\u201cstress again and again that writing is a process,\u201d showing your own manuscripts in progress, presenting the common writing problems in a set of papers before you return them).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>richard focused on the relationship between \u201csubstantive discussions and substantive writing\u201d:\u00a0 \u201cthe quality of class discussions is reflected in predictable ways in the writing i get from students.\u201d \u00a0he wants his sociology students to <strong>think, discuss, and write \u201csynthetically,\u201d <\/strong>putting texts and ideas in conversation with each other.\u00a0 such synthesis is a higher order of thinking and writing, he said, than simple interpretation, or compare and contrast.<a href=\"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/events\/twl\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-attachment-id=\"15434\" data-permalink=\"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/2013\/09\/conversations-on-teaching-writing-under-way\/twlsponsors\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2019\/03\/27125639\/twlsponsors.png\" data-orig-size=\"585,426\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sponsors\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2019\/03\/27125639\/twlsponsors-300x218.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2019\/03\/27125639\/twlsponsors.png\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15434\" title=\"sponsors\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2019\/03\/27125639\/twlsponsors-300x218.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2019\/03\/27125639\/twlsponsors-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2019\/03\/27125639\/twlsponsors-72x53.png 72w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2019\/03\/27125639\/twlsponsors.png 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>jonathan <strong>wants his science students to think of themselves as writers<\/strong>.\u00a0 he confessed to teaching less content and more writing in his first-year writing seminars.\u00a0 he regularly assigns readings from the classic writing guid<span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">e <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/research-edition-chicago-writing-publishing\/dp\/0226065669\" target=\"_blank\">the craft of research<\/a> <\/em><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">to help students integrate how they think about research and writing.\u00a0 \u201cwhy <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">do researchers write? to communicate information. to make replication of research possible. to talk with <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">journal editors and readers. even to affect public policy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/derekbruff\/9617656828\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"derek bruff's sketchnotes--thumbnail\" src=\"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/9617656828_cda76c1c0c_m-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"105\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>for an additional glimpse into the conversation, see cft director <a style=\"font-size: 13px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/derekbruff\/9617656828\/lightbox\/\" target=\"_blank\">derek bruff&#8217;s sketchnotes<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"> (preview left).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>the next conversation?<\/h2>\n<p>the remaining \u201cteaching. writing. learning.\u201d sessions will shift to a less formal conversation to facilitate idea sharing among all attendees.\u00a0 on <strong>wednesday, september 18, from 12:10-1:00,<\/strong> the conversation will focus on <strong>\u201cmanaging the paper load: grading writing efficiently and effectively.\u201d <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/bio\/scott-juengel\" target=\"_blank\">scott juengel<\/a> (english) will open with 10 minutes of some effective practices that colleagues from across the disciplines may use, followed by a few minutes of research-based best practices shared by the cft, ws, and\/or library staff.\u00a0 during the remaining 40 minutes, attendees will have a chance to discuss their practices, challenges, and questions related to \u201cmanaging the paper load.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cteaching. writing. learning.,\u201d the new series of conversations on teaching writing across the 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