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Call for Writing Intensive Projects Proposals
The mission of the Campus Writing Program (CWP) is to invest in teaching with writing for learning across the curriculum. To contribute to this mission, CWP is requesting proposals for funding Writing Intensive (WI) related projects.
Award Overview
All projects aligned with CWP’s mission, connected to WI courses, and fostering students’ ability to make meaning when learning will be considered.
An eligible project may consist of, but is not limited to, the following:
- Creating a new WI course (especially encouraged at the 1000 and 2000 levels) or redesigning a WI course for a different modality.
- Working to maintain optimum teacher-to-student ratio in particularly WI courses that require GTAs with special skills, such as foreign language fluency.
- Initiating WI-related programs, seminars, or workshops that help promote critical thinking and meaningful learning (ex: designing and facilitating professional development events that emphasize writing as a process).
- Undertaking research around the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) in WI classes.
Proposals are due by December 20, 2024. Notification of project awards will be sent in January 2025.
Visit Writing Intensive Project Awards // Campus Writing Program for more information.
Spring 2025 Workshops!
Efficient Methods for Grading and Feedback (to save time and agony!)
Tuesday, February 4 11:30-Noon via Zoom
Facilitator: Christy Goldsmith
Registration link: Efficient Methods for Grading and Feedback (to save time and agony!) – Mizzou Events Calendar
Workshop Description: In this 30-minute virtual workshop, Dr. Christy Goldsmith, Associate Director of the Campus Writing Program, will walk us through quick feedback strategies designed to check for learning and help apprentice students into disciplinary writing tasks.
Redefining Rigor: Strategies for Deepening Student Engagement in Writing Assignments February 25, 2025 at 1:30 p.m. via Zoom
Facilitator: Julie Birt and Christy Goldsmith
Registration link: Redefining Rigor: Strategies for Deepening Student Engagement in Writing Assignments – Mizzou Events Calendar
Description: In this virtual workshop, we will help you navigate the challenges of maintaining (or even increasing) the rigor of your class while also accounting for students’ interests and challenges, especially in the post-covid and GenAI era. By reconsidering the role of assignment design and feedback strategies in the rigor of a course, we can shift our focus beyond difficult course concepts to a higher level of individualized thinking and growth. *This is the same workshop from the Fall Teaching Conference*
Streamlining Feedback with PackBack in WI Courses: Advantages and Disadvantages for Writing Intensive Courses.
Date: Wed. April 9 at 10:00-10:30 a.m.
Facilitator: Julie Birt, CWP; Ashlie Lester, HDFS
Registration link: Streamlining Feedback with PackBack in WI Courses: Advantages and Disadvantages for Writing Intensive Courses Workshop – Mizzou Events Calendar
Workshop Description: In this 30-minute Zoom session, we will investigate the AI features of the PackBack tool. We’ll examine how this tool can lighten the feedback load for instructors through automated responses and dynamic discussions. Co-led with Ashlie Lester, WI faculty member, this collaborative workshop will showcase examples, offer best practices, and delve into potential challenges and limitations of using PackBack in a writing intensive course.
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AI Writing Resources
As ChatGPT and other AI writing tools evolve, a focus on the connection between writing and learning becomes even more crucial. Access CWP’s recommendations for AI use in WI courses as well as sample syllabus statements by clicking the button below.
ChatGPT and Your WI ClassroomOur Mission
The mission of the Campus Writing Program is to invest in teaching with writing for learning across the curriculum.
Writing Intensive courses help prepare future alumni to succeed in their continued studies, future careers, and community roles as they pursue writing tasks with greater confidence and understand the power of language for effective communication.
From the Campus Writing Program
Why take a WI course?
Writing Intensive courses help produce an educated, articulate citizenry capable of reasoning critically, solving complex problems, and communicating with clear and effective language.
Writing Intensive courses maintain a low student-to-teacher ratio (20:1), require at least 6,600 words of writing, and give students ample opportunity to revise their work to improve their performance. Writing assignments are designed to teach course content and to assess students’ learning, giving faculty the chance to focus on content, concepts and quality of argument while students take responsibility for surface features such as grammar and syntax. WI assignments are tied directly and specifically to the goals of the course and are fully integrated into the syllabus.
Through writing and revising, students not only master course concepts, they also learn to think and write in ways particular to their chosen disciplines.
Workshops and Retreats
News and Profiles
AI in WI Workshops
Dr. Christy Goldsmith, CWP's Associate Director, is offering one more AI in WI workshop this fall. Click the date below to find out more and to register! AI in WI #3: Teaching Writing with ChatGPT October 15, 2024
Grad Students’ Learn & Write Series
The Campus Writing Program is excited to join with the Writing Center and Mizzou Libraries to offer a Learn & Write series for graduate students this fall. Each session will run from 9 am to noon. We will begin with a brief program specific to graduate and academic writing, and then we will invite participants to write in the…
Workshop on Peer Review
Join Dr. Christy Goldsmith, Associate Director of the Campus Writing Program, for a brief yet impactful workshop on Practical Strategies for Peer Review in the WI Classroom on Tuesday, October 29, from 11:00-11:30 a.m. via Zoom. In this session, Dr. Goldsmith will share essential techniques for providing effective feedback without overwhelming writers. Please sign up here. After…