So much has happened during the 2021-22 Academic Year! It’s been inspiring to see all the ways we’ve come together in the Writing Program to support each other throughout this year’s unique challenges. In the Pedagogical Development Committee, we’re really excited about some of the projects we began this year. In the fall, PDC launched … [Read more…]
The PDC wanted to highlight what our faculty was most excited about accomplishing this past year or this upcoming summer–conferences, publications, teaching awards, classes, hobbies, children’s or students’ achievements, etc. Thank you to those of you who responded! “I consider it an accomplishment simply to have made it through this academic year.” — A common … [Read more…]
With your help, the PDC has rounded up a list of conferences and workshops we as a faculty have loved in the past…. Instruction-focused Conferences Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) What: The Conference on College Composition and Communication is committed to supporting the agency, power, and potential of diverse communicators inside and outside … [Read more…]
With the ongoing nature of the pandemic and the related upheavals in teaching, the PDC wanted to focus this post on resources (both humorous and serious) that normalize and speak to some of the challenging experiences we have been facing as faculty at UCSC. On January 13, The Chronicle of Higher Education crunched the latest … [Read more…]
♲ An Invitation from the Professional Development Committee (PDC) ♲ Writing Program Mini-Conference: Recycled Papers (PDF version) March 4, 2022 (on Zoom) WHAT: If you are presenting at CCCC in 2022, or if you gave a writing-related talk/presentation in the last few years, please participate in the Writing Program Mini-Conference! We invite recent-ish presentations/papers, such as … [Read more…]
A special thank you to the 42 instructors who responded to our PDC grading survey, about an 85% response rate! The full results are linked below, but here are the most important takeaways: The Writing Program faculty is fairly evenly divided between the three categories of grading policies: traditional points/percentages, portfolio/holistic, and contract grading. The … [Read more…]
The Writing Program welcomed three new faculty members in the fall quarter of 2021. Read on to learn a bit about our new colleagues! Chris Garrecht-Williams Campus affiliations… I’ve been teaching Oakes Core for the last few years and am in the middle of my first quarter teaching Writing 2. Before coming to the Writing … [Read more…]
Welcome to the newest iteration of The Rhetorical Situation! The Rhetorical Situation began as a newsletter in winter 2018. The then-newly-formed Pedagogical Development Committee, under the leadership of Denise Silva, envisioned pooling Writing Program faculty’s talents and experiences to create a water cooler space for checking in with each other. This space emerged as … [Read more…]