Services for Faculty
Promotional Class Visits
We welcome requests from faculty who would like to have a Writing Centre staff member make a short in-class presentation about the Writing Centre. We introduce students to our services and resources, show them how to access our spaces in-person and online, and answer any questions which they might have about visiting the Writing Centre.
Syllabus Description
We invite faculty to reproduce the following blurb in their syllabi to help publicize the Writing Centre and makes its services more accessible to students:
The Writing Centre at MacEwan University Library offers writing and communication-focused support to students from across the disciplines and at every level of study. Their support comes in a variety of forms, including:
- In-person and online peer consultations (synchronous)
- Written feedback (asynchronous)
- Writing workshops and events
- Digital and multimodal learning resources
Visit their website to learn more and book an appointment.
Embedded Workshops
Our professional staff welcome requests from faculty and staff who are interested in having a writing specialist customize a workshop for their class or program. Our pedagogical approach is guided by the principles of genre theory and writing in the disciplines. We conceptualize student writing within its social context and aim to foster rhetorical self-awareness, explicating the communicative norms which are implicit across scholarly situations and academic genres. Our workshops are available both digitally and in-person.
Possible topics of embedded writing support include, but are not limited to:
- Academic citation
- Writing with academic integrity
- Writing within a discipline (with special attention to audience, purpose, and context)
- Writing specific genres (e.g., research articles, review articles, literature reviews, abstracts, etc.)
- Contextualizing and communicating a research contribution
- Writing research proposals
- Writing an argument (in the essay genre)
- Writing as a process (e.g., how to paragraph, how to quote, how to paraphrase, etc.)
- Writing across media (e.g., podcasts, poster presentations, etc.)
- Co-authorship and group writing
- Giving and receiving peer feedback
- Writing in creative genres and research-creational writing