What resources are there to help me teach this class?

• The first resource for teaching your WL class is the WL Faculty Workshop
• For more continuing help, use this web page, with its links to assignment ideas by PSU faculty (as well as links off-campus) and suggestions about how to respond to writing assignments and how to deal with other classroom issues that might arise.
• In addition to this virtual library, you have access to a paper library of books and journal articles in various disciplines in the WAC Center (310 Grubbs Hall). You can borrow materials by signing a check-out sheet posted there.
• Always you can talk to the WAC coordinator and assistant.
• Talking to other WL faculty in your discipline would probably give you the most immediate help on day-to-day questions.
• Twice a year the WAC Newsletter comes out, with articles on ways to use writing in the classroom. For most issues, a WL faculty member writes an article on a particular kind of assignment that he or she has used productively in a WL class. The newsletter also includes information about the program in general.
• Each semester, there is a general meeting of WL faculty at which ideas for classes are discussed.
• In addition, each spring a Conversations About Writing luncheon is offered. Typically a faculty member makes a short presentation on a writing assignment he or she gives and the group takes off from there -- after eating an excellent meal.
• When possible the WAC coordinator takes interested WL faculty to the National WAC Conference in the spring for a wider view of writing in the university. Look for conferences in your own discipline that include sessions on writing.
• Finally, watch for focused workshops presented by the WAC program on such topics as helping students revise their work, how to write good writing assignments, how to use journals and small groups, and how to respond to student writing.

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