NSU's Quality Enhancement Plan April 2017

NSU QEP Current Campus Writing Activities | 21 • SharkWrites: The Abraham S. Fischler College of Education (FCE) Writing Resource Center SharkWrites is an online resource designed to connect students, faculty and staff members, alumni, and community members with resources that can help them to enhance their writing and research skills. The site includes resources created or gathered by Abraham S. Fischler College of Education faculty members and Alvin Sherman Library staff members on topics such as American Psychological Association (APA) formatting style, grammar, paraphrasing/ quoting, and how to locate library resources. There are links for NSU students to request assistance from a librarian or a writing tutor from the College of Undergraduate Studies Tutoring and Testing Center (by appointment, in person, or via technology). • College of Undergraduate Studies Tutoring and Testing Center NSU’s College of Undergraduate Studies provides academic support to undergraduate students through their Tutoring and Testing Center. The Tutoring and Testing Center offers undergraduate students support in a variety of ways, including tutoring in writing and math, general tutoring, and testing. The Tutoring and Testing Center has provided limited writing assistance to graduate students. During the academic year, 2015–2016, 575 students (423 undergraduate, 152 graduate) used the Tutoring and Testing Center’s writing tutoring services for a total of 1,408 sessions. More than 60 percent of the services requested at this center are for math and sciences. Writing Assistance: Workshops and Events Some of the colleges offer writing-based workshops and events to their respective students and faculty members, some on a regular basis and others as needed. For example, the Health Professions Division offers APA Workshops and the College of Health Care Sciences moved a course in APA style to a series of self-paced online modules. Health Care Sciences faculty members have organized workshops designed to help the faculty teach writing more effectively. The Health Professions Division’s College of Nursing offers a Student Success Seminar that provides students support with scholarly writing, Blackboard training, and using MS Word and other university resources. The Abraham S. Fischler College of Education offers a series of dissertation workshops and the College of Engineering and Computing offers a series of technical writing workshops to their students and the general university community. The Shepard Broad College of Law facilitates a Legal Research and Writing Outreach Program, which includes events on time management for writers, citation, professionalism in persuasive writing, and wellness. Professors volunteered to help organize the outreach events to reinforce the skills taught in Legal Research and Writing and help engage students with the larger legal community. During the 2015–2016 academic year, faculty members in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, primarily from the Department of Writing and Communication, also offered writing workshops in conjunction with the Alvin Sherman Library, Farquhar Honors College, Office of Undergraduate Student Success, and the Veterans Resource Center. The departments of Conflict Resolution Studies and Family Therapy also offer workshops on dissertation writing.