{"id":39,"date":"2010-01-11T19:59:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T23:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/2010\/01\/11\/wishes-for-2010-in-writing\/"},"modified":"2010-01-21T14:13:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T18:13:55","slug":"wishes-for-2010-in-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/2010\/01\/11\/wishes-for-2010-in-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Wishes for 2010 in Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m hoping for the following on our campus this\u00a0 year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<strong>Steady growth in what Stanford calls &#8220;a culture of writing.&#8221;<\/strong> I love this phrase from their <a href=\"http:\/\/\" title=\"http:\/\/hwc.stanford.edu\/\">Hume Writing Center<\/a>. This would involve, at Richmond, faculty engagement in the forthcoming seminars to prepare us to teach in the First-Year Seminar program, more writing in disciplines where it is not traditionally assigned, and, perhaps, a different way of thinking beyond &#8220;writing to get it done&#8221; by students.<\/li>\n<li><strong>More work with technology in writing assignments<\/strong>. Eng. 103 faculty have done an admirable job, during their swansong years as the program winds down. But how many of my other colleagues have writers work online with blogs, wikis, or multimedia compositions?\u00a0 These are the sorts of writing our students will do beyond the college gates, and I&#8217;m not seeing enough of this sort of work assigned.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0Fewer &#8220;busy work&#8221; assignments.<\/strong> Many of our students take writing less seriously than they might because we pack in so much reading, short assignments that never get assessed, and so forth. Part of this, I feel, stems from faculty belief that students won&#8217;t do any work unless we push them. My policy of late has been to assign less but assess more carefully. Grades still motivate students; a short &#8220;write to learn&#8221; in each class that may be occasionally graded will keep students reading more than regular and lengthy assignments. Then writers will have more time for formal writing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those are three wishes from the Writing Center Director! We&#8217;ll see what 2010 brings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m hoping for the following on our campus this\u00a0 year: \u00a0Steady growth in what Stanford calls &#8220;a culture of writing.&#8221; I love this phrase from their Hume Writing Center. This would involve, at Richmond, faculty engagement in the forthcoming seminars to prepare us to teach in the First-Year Seminar program, more writing in disciplines where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/2010\/01\/11\/wishes-for-2010-in-writing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wishes for 2010 in Writing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1138,675],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pedagogy","category-university-of-richmond"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcsCNV-D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}