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February 07, 2004
Rationale for Working Groups
Given that there are many points of entry into this very large topic, we propose that the grant fund seven to eight working groups over the next three years. The main task of these groups will be to produce teaching materials to be disseminated throughout the program. The groups will:
be composed of representatives from the main constituencies in the Writing Program (full time faculty, professional writing instructors, CCR graduate students, and possibly English graduate students)
be given a budget (up to $5000) which they could use to develop teaching materials in whatever ways they find useful (e.g., they may use the money to pay teachers stipends for developing materials, or to bring in speakers, or to purchase films or other texts, or to sponsor a student conference)
make these teaching materials public by posting them to the diversity website, by presenting them at Fall Conference and Spring Conference, and by other means such as student conferences or publications develop ways to assess what happens (e.g., each year we do a descriptive study of student writing produced in the new TA version of WRT 105).
Posted by mryonker at February 7, 2004 02:21 PM