A Personal, Historical, and Tagmemic Look at Curricular Assessment through Writing: from Multiple-Choice Bubbles to E-Portfolios
June 24, 10:30 – 11:30
Perkins 217
Refreshments will be served
Please see our Events page for more information.
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The Thompson Writing Program promotes excellence in teaching with a focus on active learning and writing as a means of critical inquiry. It is widely acknowledged to be one of the premier academic writing programs in the country. Our instructional model is imitated and the leadership of the program are in demand as consultants for writing and general education curricula.
Thompson Writing Program Annual Events
The Thompson Writing Program (TWP) helps students develop as writers from their first through senior years at Duke, and supports faculty who teach writing in a wide range of courses across the curriculum. We do this in several ways:
Critical Ink: A Conference of Undergraduate Student Writing (held April 19 and 20) is an annual multidisciplinary conference that features the best student writing and undergraduate research produced in Duke’s TWP. Reflecting the wide range of the program’s faculty specialties, the conference includes presentations and posters in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. This initiative from the Thompson Writing Program provides an invaluable forum for students to share their ideas with their peers and contribute to campus intellectual life. Critical Ink emulates academic conferences, including a competitive selection process and expert respondents to the various poster and panel sessions.
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Deliberations, the TWP's journal of first-year writing published every October, features original student essays from the previous year's first-year writing classes. During Family Weekend, the authors discuss their projects at a reception honoring their work.
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National Day on Writing (October 20) is a day to celebrate writing in all its diverse forms. Campuses around the country are finding ways to recognize how we write, when we write, why we write, and what we write. The TWP at Duke University is also finding ways to encourage people to talk about their writing and writing practices, as well as provide opportunities for people to write on that day.
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The Duke Writes Symposium gives upper class students a unique opportunity to practice applying their academic writing skills to new situations beyond conventional course work. All Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors are eligible and attendance is free of charge.
Thompson Writing Program Fellowship
The Fellowship application period is currently closed.
We anticipate offering several postdoctoral fellowships on a multidisciplinary faculty charged with teaching an innovative first-year course in academic writing. To learn more about the fellowship visit http://twp.duke.edu/fellowships To apply use our online application form here. Send us your CV, a letter in which you discuss your aims in teaching Academic Writing, a brief proposal for a writing seminar modeled on course synopses posted on our website: http://twp.duke.edu/writing-101 We may subsequently ask you to provide other supporting materials, including a more detailed course outline, and teaching materials.
If you are unable to apply online, you may mail hard copies to Denise Comer, Chair, Lecturing Fellows Search, Thompson Writing Program, Duke University, Box 90025, Durham, NC 27708-0025. Applications received by 11:59 pm EST (Eastern Standard Time) October 15, 2012, will be guaranteed consideration. Duke is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply.