Monday, Feb. 10, 12:30-1:40 p.m., Belk Library 113. Lunch will be served. Please
This workshop begins with an overview of a functional, critical and rhetorical approach to integrating GenAI-supported writing processes into your writing instruction. This framework gives us a way to understand different approaches to writing with GenAI, helping faculty decide if and how to incorporate GenAI into their writing pedagogy in an assignment, class or across the curriculum. The rest of the workshop will be spent brainstorming together how faculty might integrate this approach into their existing writing assignments and courses, and we鈥檒l experiment with using GenAI to generate possibilities.

Enhancing Student Learning through Collaborative Writing & Research Posters
Kim Epting, professor of psychology and Srikant Vallabhajosula, professor of physical therapy education

Thursday, Feb. 20, 12:30-1:40 p.m., Belk Library 205. Please 听
Join us for this session featuring two faculty members who received the Center for Writing Excellence’s Writing Pedagogy Grant to design innovative assignments that enhance student learning through writing. They will explain the best practices in writing instruction embedded in each of their assignments鈥攐ne focused on improving collaborative writing and assessment, the other on scaffolding research poster writing and design. Each presenter will deliver a 10-minute talk, followed by 20 minutes of interactive discussion, providing practical insights and takeaways for your own courses.

Developing & Sustaining A Scholarly Writing Agenda
Jessica Merricks, assistant professor of biology; Jessie Moore, director of the Center for Engaged Learning and professor of English; and John Su, associate professor of engineering

Thursday, March 6, 4:15-5:15 p.m., Belk Library 102. Snacks will be served. Please
In this informal panel discussion, three faculty from different disciplines will share their insights into maintaining a successful scholarly writing agenda. Panelists will discuss their writing routines; strategies for developing new projects, selecting publication outlets, responding to editor feedback and sustaining long-term productivity. Whether you seek to refine your writing habits or gain inspiration from experienced scholars, this discussion will provide practical insights into building a sustainable academic writing practice.

Speed-Teaching: AI-Enhanced Writing Assignments
Hwayeon Ryu, associate professor of mathematics; Lina Kuhn, lecturer in English; and Bob Frigo, assistant dean of Campus Life and director of the Kernodle Center for Civic Life

Tuesday, March 11, 2:30-3:30 p.m., Belk Library 113. Snacks will be served. Please
Explore innovative, AI-enhanced writing assignments in this interactive speed-teaching session. Three presenters will share assignments they developed for a writing and math class after participating in the Center for Writing Excellence鈥檚 Designing AI-Enhanced Writing Assignments and Developing Students鈥� AI Critical Literacies summer 2024 institute. Participants will rotate to each of the three presenters who will give a 10-minute overview of their assignment followed by a 10-minute discussion on how participants might adapt the activity to their own classrooms and contexts.

AI & Scholarship Panel Discussion
Tim Peeples, professor of humanities and senior associate provost emeritus; Amanda Sturgill, associate professor of journalism; Aaron Trocki, associate professor of mathematics; and Keshia Wall, assistant professor of dance.

Monday, April 14, 4:30-6 p.m., Innovation Atrium; Snacks will be served. Please
Panelists will first share their perspectives on integrating AI into scholarship in five minute prepared statements before opening the floor for discussion and questions. They will examine issues such as the ethical use of AI in scholarship, the impact of AI on their fields and the implications for their professions. Co-sponsored by Data Nexus, the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning and the Center for Writing Excellence.

Disciplinary Writing Consultant Program for 2025-26 (Due: April 24, 2025)
The Disciplinary听Writing听Consultant听Program pairs an experienced Writing Center consultant听with a faculty member’s undergraduate disciplinary course to collaboratively support student听writing. Faculty receive a stipend for participation.

Further details about the DWC Program can be found on the听CWE website.听听for Fall 2025听and/or Spring 2026听are due听April 24, 2025.

Developing AI assignment policies & AI-enhanced writing assignments
Monday, Sept. 9 & Tuesday, Sept. 17, 12:30 p.m. to 1:40 p.m.
113 Belk Library & 205 Belk Library

Both workshops (the same workshop held twice) will discuss what is commonly included in AI syllabi and assignment policies, share some examples, and review ways to integrate AI into writing assignments. Time will be reserved for participants to begin writing or revising their own AI policies and writing assignments, with the opportunity to share in small groups. Bring a laptop, as this will be a working session. Lunch will be served, so please

AI prompt engineering as a writing strategy
Monday, Oct. 21, 12:30 p.m. to 1:40 p.m.
205 Belk Library
Led by Tim Peeples and Paula Rosinski

Prompt engineering is a new kind of writing strategy emerging in this age of generative AI. Before this session, participants will be asked to complete a LinkedIn Learning video tutorial and a set of simple step-by-step prompt engineering activities. All faculty and staff have access to LinkedIn Learning, and detailed directions will be provided. The session will focus on experiences with these tutorials, along with activities that explore how prompt engineering could be integrated into professional lives and writing pedagogies. Lunch will be served, so please听

Doing teaching-related scholarship? We have grants for that!
Tuesday, Nov. 5, 12:15 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Belk Pavilion 208

Did you know there are lots of funding opportunities on campus to support your scholarly teaching and scholarship of teaching and learning?听Join us to hear from colleagues who have utilized funding from WAU, the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) and the Center for Research on Global Engagement (CRGE) to explore teaching-related scholarship. Faculty panelists will share their work and how their teaching curiosities formed into projects. Participants will then have time to reflect on potential grant ideas based on their teaching. Panelists include Aaron Trocki (math), Elizabeth von Briesen (computer science), Dan Burns (English), Kai Swanson (cinema and television arts), and Nermin Vehabovic (education). The directors of WAU, CATL and CRGE will explain their respective grants, expectations and deadlines. Lunch will be served, so please听.

AI & writing book club #1:听Monday, Oct. 7, 4:20 p.m. to 5:20 p.m.
AI & writing book club #2:听Wednesday, Nov. 6, 4:20 p.m. to 5:20 p.m.
AI & writing book club #3: Monday, Nov. 18, 4:30 p.m. to 5:20 p.m.
113 Belk Library

These three book club events will discuss Sidney Dobrin鈥檚 , an accessible introduction to what generative AI is, how it may be used in academic, professional, civic and personal writing and the ethical and social implications of using AI to write.

Book Club #1 will focus on 鈥淧art 1: Understanding Generative AI’; Book Club #2 will focus on 鈥淧art 2: Opportunities & Applications,鈥澨齛nd in Book Club #3, participants will discuss ways they might use AI in their writing, when teaching writing and for engaged learning. Participants are encouraged to attend all three听sessions, although this is not required. Colleagues from Eastern Michigan University will join online for the Book Club #3 discussion. After registering, participants will be notified when they can pick up the book in the Center for Writing Excellence. Snacks will be served, so please听

Informal & reflective writing-to-learn
Monday, Nov. 12, 12:30 p.m. to 1:40 p.m.
113 Belk Library

This session will explore ways to use informal and reflective writing in any discipline or context to help students learn content and engage in metacognitive thinking. Not only do these examples of writing-to-learn deepen student thinking, but they also highlight the importance of engaging in metacognitive talk about writing, something which has always been important to developing strong writers but may be of special interest to teaching in the age of generative AI.听Lunch will be served, so please .

Participants are welcome to attend for any amount of time, and there is an optional opportunity to share writing goals every hour.

The writing boot camps are held via Zoom, and the links are sent the night before the boot camp.

Dates

Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024
Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024
Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024
Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024
Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024
Saturday, Nov.16, 2024

“Ask a Computer Scientist”
Informal times to meet and discuss your AI pedagogy and research questions or ideas with Dr. Shannon Duvall, Prof. of Computer Science and CWE Technology Fellow.
Friday 9/15, 3:30-4:30pm; Tuesday 10/10, 4:30-5:30pm; Wednesday 11/15, 4:00-5:00pm. The Oak House.

“Translating Scientific Research for Non-Expert Audiences鈥�
Writing about your scientific research for non-expert audiences, in non-scientific genres (such as grants, annual reviews, or popular journals or news outlets) can be challenging. Dr. Paula Rosinski will first share a few听strategies for writing about your scientific research for non-expert readers听and then invite you to try some of these strategies yourself.听Co-sponsored by the CWE and the Provost鈥檚 Office for Scholarship and Creative Activity.
Wednesday 9/27, 12:30-1:45pm, Belk Library 205. Lunch served, please .

“ChatGPT and Prompt Engineering鈥�
Co-led by Dr. Shannon Duvall, Prof. of Computer Science and CWE Technology Fellow, Dr. Mustafa Akben, Asst. Prof. of Management, and Dr. Paula Rosinski. Have you听 ever heard the saying, “garbage in, garbage out”? Prompt engineering is the skill of crafting inputs to generative AI software that will maximize the likelihood of getting the output that you need. In this workshop, we give basic principles of prompt engineering for both using language-based AI and also teaching our students this valuable skill.
Monday 10/23, 4:30-5:45pm, Belk Library 205. Snacks served, please

Writing Boot Camps are held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. but participants are welcome to attend for any amount of time! Optional opportunity to share writing goals every hour.

Held online via Zoom. Links will be sent the night before the boot camp. Please register below.

Presenters will share the methods and results of three alumni writing research projects and discuss the implications of the results for teaching writing across the curriculum. One study surveyed over 1,000 黑料不打烊 alumni (who graduated between 2000-2018) as part of the Writing Excellence Initiative, giving us insights into the types of writing alumni most commonly produce in their professional lives, the ways that 黑料不打烊 helped prepare them to be effective writers after graduation, and how alumni think they could have been better prepared. A second 2019 study asked 黑料不打烊 students and alumni about the kinds of preparation they received in academia that helped them succeed as writers as they moved into their professional lives. The third study focused on alumni of an undergraduate major in writing and rhetoric at another university, seeking to understand if and how alumni apply their undergraduate writing education during and after college, and identifying the writing experiences that prepared them to apply that knowledge.

Participants will be invited to think about how they might revise their own writing instruction in light of the findings from these studies and/or brainstorm alumni research projects in their own offices, programs, and departments, thinking through questions and methods.

While we are only beginning to feel the effects of AI writing in higher education, viral platforms like ChatGPT present an opportunity for faculty to begin incorporating multimodal writing into their curriculum.

This workshop will encourage faculty to think of ways to use multimodal writing assignments to work around, alongside or even with AI-writing platforms in the classroom. Best practices in writing instruction have always encouraged the production of different kinds of genres, including multimodal ones; we鈥檒l suggest that it鈥檚 especially timely to incorporate multimodal writing into your curriculum, not only because AI-text generators are less suited to such writing, but also because of the prevalence of multimodal writing outside of academia.

The workshop will begin with a discussion of the ways faculty currently teach writing, and how AI might be disruptive to their learning outcomes. We鈥檒l then provide some examples of AI-generated writing to demonstrate its current capabilities and limitations, and building on those limitations, suggest teaching strategies and assignments that align with faculty learning outcomes. The workshop will close with a reflection on how faculty might teach writing in a post-AI world.

Writing Boot Camps are held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. but participants welcome to attend for any amount of time! Optional opportunity to share writing goals every hour.

Held online via Zoom. Links will be sent the night before the boot camp. Please register below.

Panel participants will share their thoughts on such questions from their unique positions, providing faculty with ideas for how to discuss, manage, and even integrate AI text generators into the classroom. We鈥檒l be sure to reserve time for questions and discussion.

“Artificial Intelligence Writing: Opportunities and Challenges for College Faculty and Staff鈥澨�
Tue. Feb. 7 (4:30-5:45; snacks served); Koenigsberger Learning Center 125 & Wed. 2/8 (12:30-1:45; snacks served); Koenigsberger Learning Center 125;听
Same workshop offered two different days/times
Led by Shannon Duvall (Computer Science), Amanda Sturgill (Journalism), Paula Rosinski (Writing Across the University), Julia Bleakney (Writing Center),听Jen Uno (Associate Professor of Biology and Associate Director of CATL)

Panel participants include:

Shannon Duvall, professor of computer science, will give a technical perspective on the capabilities and limitations of AI, as well as discuss its impact on assignments for writing code. She will give insight on the future of generative AI and how we in academia can adjust to this new, exciting, and scary tool.

Paula Rosinski, director of Writing Across the University, and Julia Bleakney, director of the Writing Center, will share practical steps you can take to design writing assignments so that they are pedagogically effective and either discourage the misuse of AI text generators or utilize them in ways that support students鈥� writing process, such as with invention strategies. They will also discuss how writing-to-learn and learning to write in a discipline and profession cannot be replicated by text generators.

Amanda Sturgill, associate professor of journalism, says computer-supported writing has already been a reality in journalism for years. With the latest, easy-to-use options, we can teach students to work WITH those tools for the benefit of the audiences they serve. Sturgill will talk about ideas for using those tools to give students skills in writing that they will use as a pro, while still making sure students learn to write.

Jen Uno, associate professor of biology and associate director of CATL, will share examples of how AI text generators can be productively integrated into biology/science classes.