Faculty Teaching and Learning with the WCC

Faculty can encourage their students to come to the writing and communication center for individual assistance. Our consultants offer students individualized assistance through one-on-one sessions lasting 45 minutes. These sessions can be in person or online, and can focus on any stage of the process, from brainstorming and developing ideas to editing final products.

Specifically, consultants will discuss assignments, listen to ideas, ask questions, talk about writing strategies, offer constructive feedback, and strengthen students' writing and communication habits. In addition, they can assist with small group assignments so long as all members of the group are present.

Faculty are encouraged to work with the WCC to develop expertise on disciplinary-specific conventions pertaining to the assignments students will bring in to the center.

Services include assistance on the following:

• Academic Projects (papers, theses, dissertations)
• Professional Projects (resumes, CVs, cover letters, grant applications, articles for publication)
• Personal Projects (creative writing)
• Digital Projects (PowerPoints, posters, infographics)

Workshops are currently held when requested by faculty and student groups. Past faculty workshop content is being moved to the W-CENTRAL Canvas site, which NSU faculty will gain access to in fall 2019.

We would be happy to develop a custom workshop or run a past workshop just for your department or college. If you have any questions about WCC faculty workshops, contact Dr. Eric Mason at ericmaso@nova.edu.

Core Faculty Workshops

These "core four" workshops cover the core skills needed by instructors when developing, responding to, and assessing student writing assignments. 

• Writing in the Disciplines: Where to Start - Discover how both short, low-stakes writing and longer, high-stakes writing assignments can be used in any course to facilitate and monitor student learning.
• Developing and Sequencing Writing Assignments - Learn how to create engaging and useful writing assignments that target course goals and simplify assessment.
• The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Commenters -  Improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the feedback you give to students on written projects without doing the work for them.
• Creating a Peer Review Process That Really Works - Discover best practices for having students read and respond to their peers’ written work

Innovation Faculty Workshops

These workshops introduce faculty to innovative pedagogies and technologies designed to enhance student learning and engagement. 

• Assigning and Assessing Oral Presentations: Powerpoint and Beyond - Discover how to assign oral presentations that allow for innovative formats for how students present their work in and out of class.
• Creating Multimodal Assignments - Learn how to design assignments that encourage students to go beyond the written word (through images, audio, and other media).
• Plotting a Course for Student Writing through Canvas - Learn how to create individual and group assets in Canvas that cover the entire writing and review process.
• Flipping the Script on the Flipped Classroom - Find ways to use writing to help flip your classroom and to support independent student learning.
• More than Words on a Page: Composing with Audio - Explore approaches to assigning, assessing, and developing students’ ability to compose audio-based projects.
• PowerPointless: Rethinking the Oral Presentation - Break out of lecture-style presentations with innovative formats and approaches to how students present their work in and out of class.
• The Power of Play: Gamifying the Learning Process - Explore how to engage students with play-based scenarios that challenge them to learn through creativity and collaboration.
• Harnessing the Educational Potential of Social Media - Find out how social media can benefit your students’ engagement with and understanding of course content.
• ExEL-ing in the Real World: Facilitating Writing-Based Experiential Learning - Learn best practices for experiential learning projects where students produce texts for and in collaboration with community partners.
• Designing Wickedly Awesome Group Assignments - Attempt creating assignments that encourage self-directed learning and challenge students to solve complex problems.
• Drawn to Scale: Strategies for Incorporating Writing into Large Classes - Explore how best practices in writing and communication instruction can be adapted to meet the needs of teachers working with a large number of students.

The Writing and Communication Center can run a past workshop or create customized writing workshops for department and programs, as well as for student, faculty and employee groups on campus. If you are interested in such a workshop, please send an email to wcc@nova.edu with the following information:

• Your Name and Contact Information
  
  
• Group requesting the workshop
  
  
• Type of skill or content you'd like to see covered
  

We will get back to you to develop a plan for the workshop you requested.