Enhancing Writing and Communication Skills at NSU Writing Center

The NSU Write from the Start QEP focuses on promoting effective methods for incorporating, assigning, responding to, and assessing writing in NSU courses. The center aims to share resources and expertise to benefit students, teachers, and the entire academic community, emphasizing the importance of writing in fostering learning, self-development, and professional achievement. Best practices include clear expectations, interactive processes, meaningful tasks, and real-world applications.

• Writing Center
• NSU QEP
• Communication Skills
• Academic Community
• Best Practices

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1. Introduction to the NSU Write from the Start QEP NSU Write from the Start Writing and Communication Center www.nova.edu/wcc

2. Components of the NSU QEP NSU Writing and Communication Center Writing Fellows and Writing Enriched Courses Graduate Student and Faculty Workshops, Consultations, and Symposia SharkWrites

3. What were NOT here to do: Turn you into a writing teacher (or worse, a grammar expert) Force your students to write persuasive essays Dictate how you should run your classroom

4. What we are here to do: To further the goals of the NSU Quality Enhancement Plan To identify effective methods for incorporating, assigning, responding to, and assessing writing in NSU courses To share resources, experiences, and expertise

5. Why? Because we believe: writing is the responsibility of the entire academic community across a student s entire time as a NSU student, not just one department, class, or year writing benefits students by promoting learning, self development, and professional achievement writing benefits teachers by improving transfer of course content and evaluation of student learning, and creates an environment for more sophisticated and fruitful student engagement

6. Some best practices: Clear Writing Expectations Interactive Writing Processes Meaning-Making Writing Tasks Real Documents and Situations Source

7. Questions?