![Picture of the 2023-2024 UW Faculty Writing Fellows and staff](https://writing.washington.edu/sites/writing/files/writing_fellows.jpeg)
Writing@UW is piloting a new program to support faculty teaching W courses who would like to take their writing instruction to the next level. This two-quarter program is taking place over winter and spring 2024 to support faculty as they (re)envision writing in their disciplines and in their teaching and learning practices.
![Picture of the 2023-2024 UW Faculty Writing Fellows and staff](https://writing.washington.edu/sites/writing/files/writing_fellows.jpeg)
Pictured (L to R): Rebecca Taylor (co-organizer), Yen-Chu Weng (Program on the Environment), Laura Chrisman (English), Megan Callow (co-organizer), Lucas Meza (Mechanical Engineering), Emily Levesque (Astronomy), Anne Searcy (Music History), and Janine Slaker (Communication). Not pictured: Rachel Chapman (Anthropology).
The learning goals for this program include:
- Understand and teach the fundamental relationship between writing and learning
- Learn about and use the UW guidelines for teaching W courses
- Use writing as a means to leverage criticality, equity, inclusion, and belonging in their classes
- Develop strategies and materials for effective writing instruction
- Complete a project that enhances writing instruction in their course
- Create a community of teachers who share the same goal: excellence in writing instruction
- Become an advocate for writing in their department or program
The Project
Fellows in the 2024 cohort are designing and implementing an intensive alteration of or addition to their W course, which they will implement in spring or fall 2024. Read summaries of each project below and click on the links for a full description, including downloadable teaching materials:
- Rachel Chapman is designing and facilitating a faculty workshop on embodied knowledge as it relates to writing pedagogy.
- Laura Chrisman is revising teaching materials to be more explicit about the culture and purpose of writing in an African Literature course.
- Emily Levesque is scaffolding the composition of a publishable scientific paper in Astronomy with smaller weekly assignments and activities around writing.
- Lucas Meza is overhauling a series of lab report assignments in Mechanical Engineering to enhance student choice and investment in a topic on materials engineering.
- Anne Searcy is developing two new Music History assignments for real-world audiences: one a researched contribution to a compilation 19th century virtuosos and one an entry in the style of the reddit page, r/askhistorians.
- Janine Slaker is transforming a research project in an Integrated Social Science course to expand critical thinking and inclusion in relation to social science research.
- Yen-Chu Weng is developing more in-depth guidance to enhance engagement with a "weekly intellectual journals" assignment in an Environmental Issues in East Asia course.
Megan Callow (Director of Writing@UW) welcomes your questions: mcallow@uw.edu