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MCC Daily Tribune

Writing Across the Curriculum: Nominate a Colleague

The WAC Steering Committee realizes that the WAC Program's success at MCC is due not just to its mission, but to the hundreds of faculty who design their courses to be Writing Intensive (WR). Their dedication and devotion to teaching WR courses proves that teaching through writing is a viable pedagogical tool in aiding students to learn course material. Each year the WAC Steering Committee honors one such teacher who has made great contributions to the development of WAC at MCC. This award is called the Outstanding WAC Faculty Award.

The WAC Steering Committee is now accepting nominations for the academic year 2018/19. The deadline for submissions is Friday, April 26, 2019. Please consider nominating a colleague who you feel deserves such recognition for their contribution to the WAC Program. Full-time, part-time, and adjunct teaching faculty are eligible.

The awardee is chosen on the basis of documented outstanding WAC instruction, including but not limited to:

  1. The use of innovative writing assignments that accomplish the Writing Across the Curriculum Program objectives, which state that through writing students will:
  • increase understanding of course content
  • gain the ability to express themselves confidently
  • enhance their critical thinking/problem solving skills
  • increase participation in their learning process

2. Promotion of WR courses and the WAC Program to other faculty and students

After review of the nomination packets, the WAC Steering Committee will select a winner, who will receive a framed certificate and a plaque on Employee Recognition Day.

The nomination packet should include the following materials:

  1. A letter of recommendation justifying the nominee's suitability for the award. (One may nominate oneself for the award but must still produce a letter of recommendation.)
  2. A copy of the nominee's writing assignment(s) and CIS showing the WR emphasis
  3. A brief statement from the nominee explaining why and how student writing is important to his or her teaching.

Please send materials, preferably electronically, to Amy Burtner (aburtner@monroecc.edu). If sending through interoffice mail, please address to Amy Burtner, English/Philosophy Dept.

Amy Burtner
Writing Across the Curriculum
04/10/2019