The College Writing Committee is a provost-appointed committee charged with overseeing the College's Writing-Intensive (WI) course requirements. The committee also sponsors the College's annual writing contest and it is responsible for offering faculty workshops and other events relating to writing across the curriculum.
Committee Members
Sarah Beshers
Assistant Professor
Health
Moffett Center, Room 108
Phone: 753-2985
besherss@cortland.edu
Mariangela Chandler
Director
Academic Support and Achievement Program (ASAP)
Van Hoesen Hall, A-11 D
Phone: 753-4309
chandlerm@cortland.edu
David Franke
Associate Professor
English and Professional Writing
Old Main, Room 117-E
Phone: 753-5945
dtfranke@cortland.edu
Regina Grantham
Associate Professor and Chair
Speech Pathology and Audiology
McDonald Building
Phone: 758-5037
granthamr@cortland.edu
Mary Lynch Kennedy, Chair
Distinguished Teaching Professor
English
Old Main, Room 115-B
Phone: 753-2086
kennedym@cortland.edu
Andrea LaChance
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Advisement Coordinator
Childhood/Early Childhood Education
Van Hoesen Hall, Room B-121
Phone: 753-5528
lachance@cortland.edu
Linda Lavine
Associate Professor
Psychology
Old Main, Room 131
Phone: 753-2040
lavinel@cortland.edu
Kevin Sheets
Assistant Professor
History
Old Main, Room 214-B
Phone: 753-2060
sheetsk@cortland.edu
Gail Wood
Director, Libraries
Library
Memorial Library
Phone: 753-2221
woodg@cortland.edu
Wayne Stormann
Professor
Recreation and Leisure Studies
Park Center, Room 315
Phone: 753-4974
warrd1njs@aol.com
Faculty Development Events
In an effort to reinforce the shared values, goals, and practices that characterize Cortland as a college committed to producing literate, resourceful writers, the College Writing Committee announces ten faculty development initiatives for 2004-2005:
- Kickoff Reception Friday, September 17, 4-6, in the new library café, The Bookmark
- Unveiling of the Cortland Online Writing Resource Center www.cortland.edu/cowrc
- Announcement of CWC Grant for writing in the disciplines
- Cutting of the ribbon for the new Faculty Writing Center
- Viewing of Harvard tape on the value of writing in a university education
- Series of monthly readings by campus writers in The Bookmark
- Oct.: Erik Bitterbaum, Bernie Earley, Mario Hernandez, Homer Mitchell, Lisa Neville, Anne Wiegard, poetry
- Nov.: Dave Miller, personal narrative (canoeing on the Lewis & Clark trail)
- Feb .: Lorraine Berry and Vicky Boynton, poetry
- Mar.: Seth Asumah, nonfiction (hooliganism in soccer)
- April : TBA
- Old-Fashioned Letter Writing Day , Nov. 18
- College Writing Committee Grant to Improve Writing in the Disciplines
The grant is designed to promote curricular reform through writing instruction. The criterion on which proposals are evaluated is the extent to which the proposed activities increase the amount and improve the quality of student writing in the major. Proposals should directly relate to goals such as the following:
- Improve writing instruction in existing Writing-Intensive (WI) courses or create new WI courses
- Integrate writing instruction and writing assignments into non-WI courses
- Improve instructor response to student writing
- Become knowledgeable about and share current research about teaching writing in the discipline
- Design and sequence writing assignments so that they build on the foundational work in CPN 100/102 and CPN 101/103.
- 2004-2005 Recipient: Economic Department
- Writing with Art , Spring 2005
- Faculty Workshops on Teaching Writing
Fall
- “How to develop discipline-specific writing pedagogies,” David Franke, Friday, Oct. 22, 4-6
- “How to design assignments,” Mary Lynch Kennedy, Friday, Nov. 12, 4:00-6:00
Spring
- “How to comment effectively on student papers,” Mary Lynch Kennedy, Friday, Feb. 11, 4:00-6:00
- “How departments ensure that their majors are competent in writing,” David Franke, Friday, Mar. 18, 4:00-6:00
- Book Chats
- Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird
- Fri., Jan. 21, led by David Franke
- Tues., Jan. 25, led by Gail Wood
- Wed., Jan. 26, led by Randi Storch
- American Library Association program, “Put it in writing @ your library,” featured throughout the year in the library café
- Seventh Annual College Writing Contest judged in spring
- Scholars’ Day session focusing on student writing, April 13, 2005
- Special events for student writers, featured throughout the year
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