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 provided
Please see our Events page for more information.
Humanities Writ Large Grant: Transforming Academic Writing in the Digital Age
We are delighted to announce that the Thompson Writing Program has been awarded a 2013-14 Humanities Writ Large Emerging Networks Grant to examine how digital rhetoric, public audience, and multimedia composition can be assessed and incorporated into what we understand to be “academic writing.” Please click here to read more.
Duke Center for Civic Engagement Studio Grant: A Collaborative Partnership between Durham Public Schools and the TWP
We are thrilled to share that the Thompson Writing Program has been awarded a 2013-14 Duke Center for Civic Engagement Studio Grant to create an immersive space in which we can explore the possibilities for long-term local partnerships centered on literacy and writing with Durham Public Schools (DPS). Please click here to read more.
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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.