{"id":705,"date":"2017-06-09T11:02:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T18:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wicnews\/?p=705"},"modified":"2017-06-12T10:21:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T17:21:14","slug":"take-aways-wic-spring-lunch-seminars-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wicnews\/2017\/06\/09\/take-aways-wic-spring-lunch-seminars-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Take-Aways from WIC Spring Lunch Seminars 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Claire Roth, WIC GTA<\/em><\/p>\n

The WIC Team is happy to report on the success of our WIC Spring Lunch Series 2017. Over the course of four weeks, the presentations and conversations facilitated in Milam 215 served as both proof and enrichment of the writing culture across Oregon State campus. Attendees included everyone from tenured faculty to graduate teaching assistants. The varied spectrum of experience led to rich\u00a0discussions on writing pedagogies. Each lunch provoked new thoughts on how best to approach the complicated task of teaching our students to write in the disciplines.<\/span><\/p>\n

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High-Impact Writing Practices & Multimodal Learning<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>On April 14th, WIC Director Vicki Tolar Burton introduced the article titled <\/span>\u201cHow To Create High-Impact Writing Assignments That Enhance Learning and Development and Reinvigorate WAC\/WIC Programs: What Almost 72,000 Undergraduates Taught Us\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Paul Anderson, Chris M. Anson, Robert M. Gonyea, and Charles Paine (2016). Tolar Burton chose the article from the academic journal <\/span>Across the Disciplines<\/span><\/i> as the central theme for this year\u2019s lunch series. Her presentation included information on Oregon State\u2019s participation in the NSSE, or National Survey of Student Engagement, and the significance of the data collected on student writing. The lunch attendees discussed the article\u2019s suggested constructs for effective writing practices. Then WIC GTA Claire Roth provided a brief overview of multimodal composition in writing intensive courses. We invited faculty to use various craft materials in a hands-on exercise in multimodality. Some took notes in crayon on colored construction paper; others created collages from magazine images. Lunch participants commented afterwards that it was \u201chelpful to be reminded about best practices for writing assignments, and (as always) to share\/hear from other faculty about related instructional successes and challenges.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Take-aways:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. The three constructs for effective writing practices are <\/span>\n