Welcome to WID Online for Adjuncts. You will be creating a WID portfolio for your urban studies or capstone course, hopefully by the end of this semester. Please review two documents under course documents:
- How to WID a Course
- Criteria for a Writing Intensive Course
I will be posting a new blog every week to ten days. Three Writing Fellows, Meredith Benjamin, Antoinette Williams-Tutt, Brett Bauchner and I will be responding to your posts and answering any questions you may have. We will proceed from low stakes activities to larger staged writing assignments. We hope you are excited about trying out new approaches to writing in your classes. Please feel free to contact me through email if anything is not clear (vanph@lagcc.cuny.edu). We do have to begin to set deadlines for assignments so please try to complete the readings and compose journal entries for Blog's #1 and #2 by mid-October! Thanks.
Blog #1 Please read Chapter 7 of John
Bean’s Engaging Ideas:“Informal, Exploratory
Writing Assignments”& Peter
Elbow, “High Stakes and Low Stakes” from Writing to Learn (see readings tab on blog
After reading please post a low stakes writing to learn activity for your course here and then follow it with a journal reflection: how did it go? what did you like about it? did your students respond well? how would you refine it next time?
