ERIC Number: EJ1176418
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 7
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Implementing Writing Intensive Gen Ed Seminars at a Small, Catholic University
Chaptin, Lisbeth
Composition Forum, v38 Spr 2018
This profile describes the first three years of initiating new writing-intensive seminars for the General Education curriculum at a small, career-focused, Catholic University. The primary reason for implementing the program was to initiate new writing-intensive seminars to replace existing writing-intensive General Education introductory courses that were not achieving hoped-for results of improving student writing skills, based on a faculty survey. It explains the strategies and theories used for involving faculty across the disciplines to teach theme-based courses each faculty member designs, the workshops that supported faculty efforts, and the administrative details of incorporating new seminars into the General Education program for students earning Associate or Bachelor degrees. Seminars are designed to be discipline-based and include writing-in-the-disciplines as well as writing-across-the-curriculum components.
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Workshops, Seminars, General Education, Undergraduate Students, Small Colleges, Church Related Colleges, Catholics, Program Implementation, Writing Across the Curriculum, Content Area Writing, Writing (Composition), Required Courses
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Pennsylvania
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