{"id":636,"date":"2017-03-10T12:19:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T20:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wicnews\/?p=636"},"modified":"2017-03-10T13:11:29","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T21:11:29","slug":"previews-high-impact-practices-wic-spring-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wicnews\/2017\/03\/10\/previews-high-impact-practices-wic-spring-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre\/Views: High-Impact Practices: WIC Spring Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wicnews\/files\/2015\/07\/vicki_crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wicnews\/files\/2015\/07\/vicki_crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2264\/files\/2015\/07\/vicki_crop.jpg 353w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2264\/files\/2015\/07\/vicki_crop-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a>By Vicki Tolar Burton, WIC Director<\/em><\/p>\n<p>New research on college writers published in the journal <em>Across the Disciplines<\/em>\u00a0has identified a short list of high-impact teaching practices that correlate with students\u2019 academic success and positive college engagement.\u00a0 The practices are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Interactive writing processes<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Meaning-making writing tasks<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Clear writing assignments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The WIC program will unpack these high-impact practices at four WIC spring lunch seminars. At the April 14 lunch, we will introduce the practices in more detail, along with deep approaches to learning that can be applied to any course, including writing-intensive courses. We will also share multi-modal strategies for implementing the practices.<\/p>\n<p>One of the interactive writing processes that supports learning is peer feedback on drafts. On April 21, faculty will learn about feedback available at OSU\u2019s new Undergraduate Writing Studio. (Read more about this in our <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wicnews\/2017\/03\/08\/osu-writing-center-becomes-osu-writing-studio\/\">interview<\/a> with Studio Coordinator, Dennis Bennett in this issue.) On April 28, Kay Sagmiller, Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning will support the practice of using meaning-making writing tasks\u00a0with an interactive presentation on\u00a0cognition and learning. The final lunch seminar on May 5 brings us more ideas on interactive writing processes using technology, including Instructional Technology Specialist\u00a0Tasha Biesinger\u00a0and others from Information Services. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wicnews\/2017\/03\/06\/585\/\">Please sign up<\/a> for the lunches, read a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wicnews\/2017\/02\/02\/quick-wic-theory-short-author-author\/\">rhetorical precis<\/a> of Paul Anderson, et al\u2019s, \u201cHow to Create High Impact Writing Assignments,\u201d or read the <a href=\"https:\/\/wac.colostate.edu\/atd\/hip\/andersonetal2016.cfm\">full article<\/a> in <em>Across the Disciplines<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Faculty in majors with growing enrollments will want to check out this issue&#8217;s article by Dan Smith and Jessica Just on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wicnews\/2017\/03\/02\/new-wic-model-growing-major\/\">new WIC model<\/a> designed by the Department of Food Science and Technology. Smith and Just share both course design and assessment take-aways in this innovative\u00a0approach to teaching students to write in their major.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, please be sure your unit plans to honor the top undergraduate writer in each major with a WIC Culture of Writing Award spring term. See the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wicnews\/2017\/03\/06\/nominate-best-student-writer-wic-culture-writing-award-discipline\/\">information for nominations<\/a> in this issue.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Spring!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Vicki Tolar Burton, WIC Director New research on college writers published in the journal Across the Disciplines\u00a0has identified a short list of high-impact teaching practices that correlate with students\u2019 academic success and positive college engagement.\u00a0 The practices are: Interactive writing processes Meaning-making writing tasks Clear writing assignments. The WIC program will unpack these high-impact&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wicnews\/2017\/03\/10\/previews-high-impact-practices-wic-spring-theme\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[712375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winter-2017"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wicnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wicnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wicnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wicnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wicnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wicnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wicnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wicnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wicnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wicnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}