Award-winning Scholar to Lead Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Workshop
Contact: Kay Hyatt, (207) 581-2761
Writing is crucial and enriches all fields of academic instruction. That’s the point that widely recognized teacher and author Patricia Lambert Stock will promote and demonstrate to University of Maine faculty during a writing-across-the-curriculum workshop on Friday, Oct. 21.Stock, professor of writing, rhetoric and American cultures at Michigan State University and founder of that institution’s Writing Center, will also give the keynote address at a conference for high school and college writing teachers the following day in Augusta.
Stock’s UMaine workshop, “From Experience to Exposition: Genres of Writing and Acts of Learning,” is sponsored by the Center for Teaching Excellence and supported by the University of Maine System Chancellor’s Office. It will take place in the main dining room of Stodder Commons from 1-4 p.m. The workshop is free to all UM System instructors and graduate teaching assistants and is open to other college educators for a $15 fee. Registration should be made no later than Sept. 30 with the Center for Teaching Excellence, 581-3472.
The intent of the workshop is to help faculty improve the way they plan, assign and use writing to support goals in the classroom regardless of the subject being taught and to recognize how writing gets students more engaged in the subject and improves their learning.
“Professor Stock is an absolutely trustworthy theorist/practitioner; everything she supports grows out of her classroom experience, and she is incredibly good at getting dialogue going about important issues in the teaching of writing,” says Patricia Burnes, UMaine associate professor of English and coordinator of the First-Year Writing Program.
Before joining Michigan State, Stock taught secondary school English in urban, suburban and rural schools in New York and Michigan and was a faculty member at the University of Michigan and at Syracuse University, where she was also associate director of the Syracuse Writing Program. Currently, she is serving as past president of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and on the Advisory Board of the National Commission on Writing for America’s Families, School, and Colleges. Stock has received prestigious awards for her books and articles, including the James Britton Award for “The Function of Anecdote in Teacher Research,” and the Conference on College Composition and Communication’s Outstanding Book Award for “Moving a Mountain: Transforming the Role of Contingent Faculty in Composition Studies and Higher Education.”
The Oct. 23 conference to be held at the University of Maine at Augusta is sponsored by the University of Maine System, the Maine Community College System, the Maine Department of Education and the Center for Educational Transformation. Information about that event is available on the Web at http://www.maine.edu/writers/index.htm.