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SUMMARY:AWAC Summer Reads: Zoom Discussion of "Writing Expertise: A Research-based Approach to Writing and Learning in the Disciplines"
DESCRIPTION:AWAC’s Mentoring Committee is excited to announce the date for the AWAC Summer Reads book discussion!\n\n\nAWAC Summer Reads is an extension of our AWAC Reads reading group\, which aims to create a space for collegial conversation about WAC and writing scholarship. Both AWAC members and non-members are welcome to participate! (Not yet an AWAC member? Learn more!) \nWhat was our AWAC Summer Reads text?\nFor Summer 2026’s AWAC Summer Reads\, we selected Adapting the Past to Reimagine Possible Futures: Celebrating and Critiquing WAC at 50\, edited by Megan J. Kelly\, Heather M. Falconer\, Caleb L. González\, and Jill Dahlman. \nThis edited collection is available as an open-source e-text through WAC Clearinghouse:\nhttps://wacclearinghouse.org/books/perspectives/iwac2020/ \nWhen is the discussion?\nOur synchronous conversation on Zoom will take place on Friday\, September 25\, at 1pm ET (12pm CT\, 11am MT\, 10am PT\, 6pm BST\, 7pm CET). If you are interested in participating in the live talk about our book\, please sign up: https://forms.gle/CFUXfAbj3xS3qcpY8 \nWhat will we be chatting about?\nWhether you have time to read the whole collection deeply or simply give it a skim\, please join us regardless! We welcome your contributions and conversation. \nWhile our discussion may range throughout the entire edited collection\, conversation will start with key chapters from each section: \n\nChapter 3: Assessing Faculty Members’ Threshold Concepts for the Teaching of Writing: The Challenges of Survey Validity and the Promise of Narrative Methods\nChapter 4: Strengthening the Core: Designing and Implementing a New\, Sustainable WAC/WID Program\nChapter 7: Accessing Critical Reflection to Promote Inclusivity in Writing Intensive Courses\nChapter 11: When Learning Outcomes Mask Learning\, Part 2: Probing Assumption about Assessment via Disciplinary Genres\nChapter 16: WAC Compared to Other “Across the Curriculums”\nChapter 17: Imagining WAC’s Future: Coloniality\, Diversity\, and Sustainability\n\nLinks for the Zoom meeting will be distributed via email a few days in advance of the meeting date. \n\n\nQuestions about AWAC Summer Reads?\nContact Jackie Kauza (wolfstar@umich.edu). \nWe look forward to reading and discussing with you!
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/awac-summer-reads-zoom-discussion-of-writing-expertise/
LOCATION:Zoom\, United States
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