CTRW Events

Research Roundtable with Emily Bouza

Posted on January 29, 2023

The Center for Teaching and Research in Writing is pleased to invite you to a research roundtable on Tuesday, 14 February, from noon to 1.15 in 7191 Helen C. White Hall. The presentation’s title is …

Research Colloquium with Heather Willis Allen

Posted on November 3, 2022

Please mark your calendars for a CTRW research colloquium and brown-bag lunch presentation on Tuesday, 6 December from noon to 1.15 in 7191 Helen C. White Hall. “Moving beyond product, process, or genre: A design …

Research Colloquium with Caroline Gottschalk Druschke

Posted on October 25, 2022

Please mark your calendars for a CTRW research colloquium and brown-bag lunch presentation on Thursday, 10 November from 12.30 – 2 pm in 6191 Helen C. White Hall. “Using Technical Documents to Teach Indigenous Dispossession and …

CTRW Open House – Oct. 20th

Posted on July 22, 2022

The Center for Teaching and Research in Writing (CTRW) will hold an open house on Thursday, October 20th, from 3 to 5 pm in 6191 Helen C. White Hall. The CTRW, launched this past summer, serves as a research …

Spotlighting the Role of Shadowing Co-Teaching Sessions in a Writing Center’s Outreach Program
By Nattaporn Luangpipat—The outreach program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center was established to promote a strong culture of writing across the curriculum by supporting faculty, staff, and students in all disciplines and programs throughout the University. It connects the Writing Center and various campus communities to share our skilled instruction and learn from […]
Disciplinary Writing Interviews and the Need for Linguistic Justice Across Professions
By Emily Bouza and her English 201 class—How do writing conventions change among different disciplines? How can we move toward greater linguistic justice in writing for different disciplines? These are the questions our ENGL 201: Intermediate Composition course sought to answer this semester. Each of the 19 students in Emily Bouza’s section of this class […]
Illuminating the Writer Behind the Draft: Insights on Written Feedback Appointments
By Samitha Senanayake—After completing an asynchronous feedback appointment and glancing, often with tired eyes, at the neat blocks of paragraphs in the global or summary comment, I feel good: job done! But it’s only recently that I’ve begun to wonder what the same paragraphs might make a student feel. Even before they read the text, […]
Neurodivergency in Writing Center Design: Where is it?
By Maya Osaka, University of North Carolina at Charlotte—"Sorry, can you repeat that?” // My client begins again—this is the second time I’ve asked them to do so during our session, and as their voice begins to fade away I know I’ll likely have to ask them to repeat themself for a third time. It […]
Writing Center Affiliates’ Recent Conference Participation
By Ellen Cecil-Lemkin—The first in-person International Writing Centers Association (IWCA) Conference since 2019 was held from October 26 to 29, 2022 at Vancouver, British Columbia. Sherry Wynn Perdue, IWCA president, wrote, “Attended by almost 500 members from all over the world, our annual conference offered presenters and attendees an opportunity to converse and conspire, so […]

THE UW-MADISON WRITING CENTER’S ONLINE HANDBOOK
Available through the UW–Madison Writing Center’s website, the UW–Madison Writer’s Handbook is a reference guide designed for academic and professional writing. Drawing hundreds of thousands of visitors every month, the Writer’s Handbook provides over 100 …
A Research Guide for a Literature in Translation Course
Librarians at Memorial Library teach library instruction sessions for sections of a Literature in Translation course. To facilitate students’ research during the library visit and afterwards, librarians create a research guide accessible through the Canvas course …
CONCEPTUAL MAP EXERCISE FOR A RESEARCH PROJECT IN SOCIOLOGY 210
SARAH FRANK SOCIOLOGY 210: SURVEY OF SOCIOLOGY
LIBERAL EDUCATION AND AMERICA’S PROMISE (LEAP): ESSENTIAL LEARNING OUTCOMES
Beginning in school, and continuing at successively higher levels across their college studies, students should prepare for twenty-first-century challenges by gaining: Knowledge of Human Cultures and the Physical and Natural World Through study in the …
A Brief How-To Guide: Using SpeedGrader to Respond to Student Writing
MIKE HAEN WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM UW-Madison’s centrally-supported learning management system Canvas (adopted in 2018) offers a feature called SpeedGrader, which provides convenient and efficient options for responding to student writing. This guide synthesizes material available …