2000-08
Postdoctoral Seminar in Teaching Writing
From 2000-08, as Director of the Duke Writing Program, I led an intensive, three-week seminar for new faculty each August before fall classes began. The faculty in these seminars werepostdoctoral fellows who had come to Duke to learn how to design and teach writing-intensive courses in their fields. This seminar introduced them to that work. The materials for the final seminar I directed, in August 2008, are posted here.
August 4-21, 2008, Monday to Thursday, 8:30 am - 12:30 pm, 116 Art Building
Postdoctoral Seminar in Teaching Writing
This annual summer seminar brings new faculty in the Duke UWP together for three weeks to design their Writing 20 courses for the fall semester and to discuss strategies for teaching academic writing. The seminar is also set up to offer you a sense of the pace and feel of work in Writing 20—of what it is like to share drafts in small-group workshops, to talk about work-in-progress with a larger seminar, to offer useful and focused comments towards revision, and to present a finished project as part of a class panel.
At the end of this seminar, you should have a set of materials ready to go for your fall Writing 20 course. More important, you should feel ready and eager to take on this new teaching project. We look forward to working closely with you over the next few weeks and the coming year!
Seminar Materials
Schedule
Links
- Writing 20 Course Goals and Practices
- Guidelines for Teaching Portfolios
- Writing Studio
- Duke Community Standard
- Duke Library
- Blackboard