Course Overview

• Draws students from multiple majors; required for English majors and several others
• Evolved from previous incarnation, Writing in the Disciplines
• Focuses on analysis, production, revision, and publication of academic and real world texts, including oral and multimedia
• Integrates research from multiple disciplines as well as collaborative learning and writing
• Now taught primarily by composition faculty; offered online and face to face

Sample Syllabi: Interdisciplinary Writing

Sample Collaborative Assignments

• Collaborative Research Project
  • Scholarly Paper
  • Group Blog
• They Say/I Say Writing Instruction Video
• Thinking about Reading and Writing Group Project

Benefits of Collaboration

• Community building
• Cross-disciplinary student partnerships
• Value perspectives and disciplinary knowledge of students from other majors
• Process-based learning
• Accountability
• Preparation for post-baccalaureate world

Holistic Team Scoring of Student Portfolios

• Implemented in Fall 2017
• Same process and rubric we use for first year composition
• Portfolio worth 40% of final grade (60% in FYC classes)
• Consistent assessment for all sections
• Faculty and program development
• Longitudinal perspective from FYC to UD writing

• 1 unit credit/no-credit class for students in all majors
• Course cap of 7 students
• Help students become more effective editors of their own writing (from other concurrent courses)
• Increase academic register as well as written structural awareness and sophistication
• Support for assignment analysis and academic habits
• Skill & Drill
• Confidence building and faculty mentoring

• Adaptation of ENGL 299 for students in writing intensive UD courses
• Tailored towards Capstone, Research Methods, and other discipline-specific courses
• Support for professional communication (cover letters, resumes, personal statements)
• Strategic planning and triage skills
• Outside reader and coach

Sample Syllabi: Editing Studio

• New Senate Policy on GWAR developed by GWAR Task Force in fall 2017 when existing GWAR policy rendered out of compliance with EO 1100
• TF included faculty from multiple disciplines, writing and multiliteracy center director, advising, articulation
• Consulted with chairs across programs
• Detailed policy and criteria as well as exhibits on best practices for teaching and assessing writing in UD courses
• Policy approved by Senate in spring 2018; included request for temporary GWAR waiver until 2020-2021 Catalog Year submitted by Provost and approved by CO

• ENGL/SOC 305: Writing in the Social Sciences
  • Emerged from ENGL 251: Secrets of Academic Writing
  • Model for future GWAR courses
• CHS 331: Transborder Perspectives in Chicana/o Studies
  • Consultations to adapt and submit for GWAR
• Computer Science/Mechatronics
  • Consultations to develop a class for these high unit majors

• FIP: Faculty Inquiry Projects
  • Faculty-facilitated group centered on topics related to teaching, scholarship, or personal well being
    • Fall 2018 FIP: "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Student Writing"
      • Cross-disciplinary group of faculty
      • Focus on developing effective writing prompts and providing feedback to students
• Teaching and Learning Innovations
  • Workshops on Best Practices & Tools
    • Responding to Student Writing
    • Effective Feedback Methods
    • Writing to Learn
    • Managing the Paper Load