The CEW's Writing Across the Curriculum Program provides the following resources for faculty:

• A clearinghouse of information on writing: 

"W" Course Guidelines

Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition

English  004, 005, 015, and 030 First-Year Composition at PSU

English 202ABCD WAC Courses at PSU

Towards a Digital Composition Curriculum at Penn State

• One-to-one consultations, brown-bag lunch discussions, workshops, seminars, colloquia, and tip sheets on these and other topics: 

Designing writing assignments 

Using ungraded, informal writing-to-think exercises 

Responding to student writing 

Helping Students Use Sources Effectively (Avoiding Plagiarism)

Grading final drafts 

Using alternatives to grading 

Managing the paper load 

Helping students respond to one another's writing 

Defining and enacting a writing-intensive pedagogy 

Developing and Proposing a "W" Course 

Senate Committee on Curricular Affairs Guidelines 

"W" Features Overview 

Active Learning in General Education Classes 

Responses to Recent Faculty Seminars: 

August 2002 Seminar, August 2003 Seminar, July 2004 Seminar, 

August 2004 Seminar

Faculty from across the university and Undergraduate Peer Tutors of Writing participate in a CEW workshop.

The total number of current W courses at PSU is 336.  The number of W courses created within the last five years is 93 (7/16/04).

The first class of students for whom a W course was required graduated in Spring 1994.

Editorial:

We have writing classes that help students learn to write; let's also have classes where they write to learn. If students use writing as a learning tool in every class just as they use reading, we will have more broadly literate students in every major who are writers as well as readers and thinkers.

Not everyone can be expected to teach writing, but anyone can teach with writing.  --Jon Olson

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