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Writing Matters: Newsletters

The Writing Matters newsletter is issued each year in September, October, November, January, February and March. It treats topics of general interest to all faculty, and it notifies faculty of upcoming seminars, lectures, and monthly luncheon-workshops. To see past issues, click one of the links below: 

March 2008: Clarity in Academic Writing

February 2008: Finding a Consensus About Writing

January 2008: Writing for Academic Audiences

November 2007: Writing About Performance

October 2007: Reading Matters, Too!

September 2007: Demystifying Academic Culture

March 2007: The Business Side of Academic Writing

February 2007: Helping Students to Research Effectively

January 2007: On Plagiarism

November 2006: Assessing Writing Outcomes

October 2006: Teaching Grammar, the Good News and the Bad News

September 2006: Abstract or Concrete? General or Specific?

April 2006: Rubrics, an Efficient and Effective Grading Tool

March 2006: Humor in the Classroom?

January 2006: Does PowerPoint Make Us Dumb?

November 2005: Nursing: a Fine Example

October 2005: Making Writing Matter

March 2005: Getting Used to Usage

February 2005: The Use of Digital Video in Academe

September 2005: Note-taking

January 2005: Writing-based Assessment

November 2004: A Department Writing Strategy

October 2004: Creativity and Writing

September 2004: Conferencing with Students

March 2004: Using Writing to Help Students Perform Empirical Research

February 2004: Visual Literacy

January 2004: Mentoring Student Writers as Scholars

November 2003: Writing Specialists in Content Courses

October 2003: Using the Six Traits to Evaluate Student Writing

September 2003: Past, Present and Future WAC at BYU

February 2003: Helping Students Understand Voice in Writing Across the Curriculum

January 2003: Writing in Large GE Courses

November 2002: Technology in Writing

October 2002: Speaking Well

September 2002: Religious Writing in the Academy, Academic Writing in Religion

March 2002: Global Literacies and Freshman Writing

January 2002: Helping ESL Students with Writing

November 2001: Teaching Students to Use Visuals

October 2001: Faculty Self-Interest and Writing in the Disciplines

September 2001: Campus Writing Resources

March 2001: "Languaging" in Teaching and Learning

February 2001: Collaboration in Student Writing

January 2001: Department Initiatives to Improve Student Writing

November 2000: Helping Students Avoid Plagiarism

October 2000: Spotlight: Richard Lanham

September 2000: Writing in Large Classes

March 2000: Training Students to do Peer Review

January 2000: Writing and Learning

December 1999: Teaching Term Papers as a Process

November 1999: Responding to and Grading Student Writing

October 1999: Writing to Learn

September 1999: Grading Made Easy(er)

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