WRITING @ CASE

Resources on Writing Pedagogy

Navigating This Site | Frequently Requested Links | Please Contribute

Welcome

This section of the Writing@Case site is meant to provide useful resources for writing faculty. In addition to the Pedagogy Resources provided in this section of Writing@Case, however, we have added the new Writing Wiki (link above). This section of the site also contains pedagogical materials and serves as a collaborative resource for faculty and students on college level writing instruction and the writing process. An introductory letter to the Writing@Case website, which debuted in the Spring 2005 semester, is available here and explains the background to the site and its organization.

Frequently Requested Links

Collaboration and Roles:

• >The SAGES website has a number of useful materials for collaborating in the classroom. This document can be reached from the SAGES fellows page: http://www.case.edu/sages/fellows.htm, or from the Program Resources main page under "Negotiating Writing Roles."

First Seminar

• > Last spring, faculty members from the First Seminar committee met with some of our most highly regarded co-instructors to discuss approaches to writing for incoming students.  An account of their conversation is available on the "What We Have Learned" page of the Writing Pedagogy website, in the section "First Seminar Lessons Learned (March 2005)": http://www.case.edu/artsci/engl/writing/pedagogy/learning.html
• > On that same page, there is a link to "Inventing First Seminar," a page of the SAGES wiki where First Seminar instructors have begun to share ideas about course design and related matters.  You can also go directly to the SAGES wiki by way of: http://artsci.case.edu/wiki/sages/index.php?title=Inventing_first_seminar

Seminaring in General

• > "Leading a SAGES Seminar: An Instructor's Guide," is available through the SAGES website: http://www.case.edu/sages/fellows.htm
• > Also on the SAGES site, there is a page about "The Seminar Experience," with a link to Michael Kahn's influential essay on the subject: http://www.case.edu/sages/sem_experience.htm

Writing Topics

• > Several instructors have expressed an interest in conducting peer-editing workshops.  For suggested materials, see the "Response Strategies" page of the Writing Pedagogy website: http://www.case.edu/artsci/engl/writing/pedagogy/response.html
• > We encourage (no; implore) all instructors to direct their students to the writing support available through the Writing Center and the SAGES Peer Writing Crew: http://studentaffairs.case.edu/education/resources/
• > To meet the Writing Crew members, you can visit their blog: http://blog.case.edu/orgs/sages/

SAGES program assessment

The SAGES Learning Research Team conducted a thorough assessment of the SAGES pilot.  Its report is available on the SAGES Blackboard site; you can get to it by following these steps:

1. After you log onto the site, click "SAGES" under "My Courses.
2. Along the left side of the screen, click "Documents for Instructors."
3. Next, click "General Seminar Information and Materials."
4. When that page opens, you'll see a link to "Assessment of SAGES Pilot."

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Please Contribute

If you have taught in SAGES or have used writing in your courses, your thoughts, questions, sample assignments, success stories, or words of caution are all welcome. Please post any materials of interest on the writing wiki (link above). Thank you in advance!

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