Writing Committee

Chair:

Greg Peters, Missoula College - Science

Meetings:

The Writing Committee meets every other Monday from 10:00-11:00 a.m. via Zoom. 
Contact the Faculty Senate Office to be added to the distribution list to receive meeting agendas and minutes.

Responsibilities:

The Writing Committee is primarily responsible for the ongoing evaluation and assessment of General Education writing requirements. The Writing Committee advocates for effective writing instruction, curriculum, and assessment. In addition, the Writing Committee reviews course proposals for the writing designation as well as transfer equivalency appeals for writing courses. The Writing Committee also monitors the programs of the Writing Center as well as the University-wide Program-level Writing Assessment, and collaborates with campus groups to provide faculty development workshops.

Information & Forms for Review of Writing Courses:

Writing Course Guidelines
FAQs
Rubric used to approve Intermediate Writing Courses
Rubric used to approve Advanced Writing Courses
Guide for Distributed Advanced Writing Courses
Information Literacy
Intermediate Writing Exemption Appeal Guidelines
Advanced Writing Substitution Request/
Rolling Review Form - Intermediate Writing Course
Rolling Review Form - Advanced Writing Course

Rolling Review Template forms and samples


 

Review Cycle Year

Writing Course Group

2020 Writing, Literature  and Fine Arts
2021 Professional Schools
2022  Humanities 
2023  Sciences
2024 Social Science

Writing Resources for Faculty

Writing Center Resources for Teaching Writing

  • Bigger isn’t Better: Soliciting Sophisticated, Rigorous Writing through Short Assignments
  • So You Are’t a Writing Teacher?  Stress-free Strategies for Using Writing to Help Students Learn in Any Discipline
  • Speaking the Same Language: Strategies for Responding to Writing in the Sciences and Beyond
  • Not on the Same Page?:  Defining your Assignment Expectations and Using Rubrics to Communicate Them
  • How Rubrics Help Students and Teachers
  • Providing Productive Feedback in a Reasonable Amount of Time 
  • Revision Strategies that Work