This year at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, one of the Wednesday afternoon workshops will focus on supporting instructors of professional, technical and STEM writing in redeveloping an existing course through the lens of writing about writing (WAW). Instructors from all institutional types are welcome, but instructors from 2-year colleges, including technical colleges and trade schools, are especially encouraged to attend.

Instructors need not have any prior experience with the writing-about-writing approach to teaching writing. The workshop will provide support for identifying the aspects of a WAW approach that are relevant to the participant’s institutional context and course curriculum and create a generative environment for reimagining assignments, assignment sequences, lesson plans or the whole curriculum.

We wanted to circulate this information as early as possible in the hopes that a cohort of instructors from your institution might be able to attend together.

Below you will find a sketch of the workshop schedule. Please feel free to contact Sarah Read (sread :at: depaul.edu) with any further questions about the workshop. We hope to see you in Portland this March!

Title of Session: Rethinking Technical, Professional and STEM Writing Pedagogy through
Writing About Writing

Short Description: Workshop participants will reimagine and innovate courses in STEM and
Professional Writing through the lens of Writing About Writing

Workshop at a Glance: