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The Howe Center for Writing Excellence has announced the recipients of three grants for the 2009-2010 academic year. The goal of these awards is to support high-impact projects that will help students write better and learn more through writing.
A team of five faculty members in the computer science and software engineering department received a $5,000 department development grant to integrate writing, speaking and reading assignments in a sequence of five required courses. The team will identify learning outcomes and assignments that progressively advance students’ communication abilities as they proceed through the courses. After piloting, assessing and revising the assignments, the team will share its results, along with instructors’ guides, with the rest of the department.
Project team members are Robert Brinkman, Janet Burge, Norman Krumpe, Alton Sanders and Doug Troy.
Four faculty members in the Spanish and Portuguese department received a $5,000 department development grant to develop and assess writing assignments for six courses that constitute the Spanish basic language curricula. The learning outcomes for the assignments will conform to the guidelines for writing proficiency tests set by the American Council of Teaching of Foreign Languages. Results will be used by about 15 teaching staff and nearly 1,000 students per semester.
Project team members are Tiffany Belka, Eva Rodríguez-González, Leah Henson, and Nohelia Rojas-Miesse.
Oana Godeanu, American studies, is recipient of a $2,000 individual faculty grant to create, pilot, assess and refine a new set of writing assignments for AMS 205, American Identities—An Introduction to American Studies. The assignments will enable faculty to continue using writing to enhance student learning in a course whose enrollment limit has been expanded to 100.
Additional information about Howe Center grants is available at www.muohio.edu/Howe.
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