Integrated Academic Literacies:
Research & Writing Workshop Series

This quarterly workshop series is offered to faculty teaching WWU writing courses (those designated as Writing Proficiency or GUR Communication Block C). Writing course faculty may choose one or more of the following workshops for their students and should plan to participate in the sessions, along with the Libraries/Learning Commons facilitator, and a Research & Writing Studio Assistant.

These strategy-based workshops address key dimensions of doing research-based writing and span critical junctures in the inquiry-composing process:

Getting Started workshop (offered weeks 2-5)

Analyzing the Assignment
Choosing a Topic
Drafting an Inquiry Question
Testing the Inquiry Question and Forming Subquestions

Finding & Using Sources workshop (offered weeks 4-7)

Revisiting the Inquiry Question and Subquestions
Research Skills and Reading Literacies
Mapping Sources and Rhetorical Moves
Additional Research Strategies
Building the Draft and Next Steps

Revising & Editing workshop (offered weeks 7-10)

Thesis
Organization
Style
Editing and Proofreading
Documenting and Citing Sources

If you have any questions about these workshops or would like to know if they would be a good fit for your course, please email LearningCommons@wwu.edu before completing this form.

Name *

Email *

Course *

What days and times does your class meet? *

How many students are in your class? *

Note: Class sizes over 25 may need to be divided into two sections.

This course is a *

Writing Proficiency course (WP)

CCOM GUR

Other

Note: Scheduling priority given to WP and CCOM GUR courses.

Which workshops would you like for your course? (Select all that apply) *

Getting Started

Finding & Using Sources

Revising & Editing

Note: See workshop descriptions at the top of this webform.

Would you prefer 50-minute workshops or 80-minute workshops? *

50-minute

80-minute

Please share any specific topics you want us to emphasize in the workshop. *

List all the possible dates that you could potentially fit workshops into your course schedule. *

Note: Each workshop is only offered during certain parts of the quarter. Please see the workshop descriptions at the top of this form. Also, please provide multiple possible dates for each workshop you are requesting. This improves our ability to schedule your workshops.

File Upload *

Please upload the most recent draft of your course syllabus and assignment description to share with your Libraries/Learning Commons facilitator.
Files must be less than 5 MB.
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Integrated Academic Literacies: Research & Writing Workshop Series

Getting Started workshop (offered weeks 2-5)

Finding & Using Sources workshop (offered weeks 4-7)

Revising & Editing workshop (offered weeks 7-10)

Integrated Academic Literacies:
Research & Writing Workshop Series