Faculty Workshops

The Writing Program offers workshops to support faculty who teach CADW classes in their areas of study.

Teaching CADW: Best Practices and Common Challenges

Using a Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) approach, this workshop combines insights from rhetoric and composition research, practitioner lore, and examples from Writing Program Affiliated Faculty in different disciplines to explore best practices and common challenges related to implementing CADW learning outcomes in an area of study.

Upcoming Workshops

The next CADW workshop is scheduled for December 16, from 11-1, in Learning Commons 207. To register, email writingprogram@sandiego.edu.

Learning Goals

Attendees will learn how to:

  • Use the CADW Rubric for course and assignment planning and paper grading
  • Teach writing as a recursive process through course scaffolding and informal, skills-based assignments that prepare students for more complex papers
  • Develop a metadiscourse to help students internalize key components of your writing pedagogy; integrate your metadiscourse into class scaffolding, assignments, revision, paper comments, and grading
  • Strategically choose from different methods for commenting on student papers
  • Design writing-to-learn class activities that encourage students to be active learners and co-contributors to classroom knowledge
  • Identify different rhetorical modes common in your area of study (and your students’ tendencies to misunderstand or ignore them); design activities to help students practice important rhetorical modes in low-stakes, writing-to-learn activities
  • Identify and teach genres and patterns of writing in your area of study
  • Identify foundational value assumptions that influence persuasion in your area of study, and plan how to incorporate them into your teaching and student feedback.

Workshop Materials

All workshop materials are available online: