Writing for Writing Program Administration

A key speciality at Defend, Publish & Lead is helping clients develop documents for writing program administration, writing across the curriculum initiatives, and writing centers. Below is a list of typical services we offer.

First-Year Writing Curriculum Revision

• Updating the students learning outcomes (SLOs)

  • Using national guidelines in writing SLOs

  • Using recent research in writing SLOs
• Using the institutional context in writing SLOs
• Building consensus around those outcomes
• Revising the curriculum to achieve the new SLOs
• Piloting the new curriculum
• Assessing the new curriculum
• Limited curriculum revision based on assessment results

Comprehensive approach to TFT at the program-level: curriculum development, faculty development, GTA training, and assessment

Conceptualizing the transfer of the Teaching for Transfer (TfT)  curriculum from a single course to an entire program

Reconfiguring the Composition Practicum to prepare graduate teaching assistants (GTAs)  to teach the TFT curriculum

Designing writing programmatic assessment of the TFT curriculum

Creating a professional development program on the teaching of reflection and transfer

Multimodal pedagogy professional development

• Identifying needs and challenges
• Conceptualizing the program
• Designing the program: theoretical, pedagogical, and technological aspects
• Implementing the program both in-person and asynchronously
• Assessing the effectiveness of the program

Social justice and multimodality

• Considerations for social justice work
• Translating those considerations into intentional pedagogical choices
• Selecting readings and writing assignments
• The role of multimodality in social justice work

Micro-credential programs in technical communication

• Researching and documenting institutional context and needs
• Proposing a micro-credential program
• Designing the program: learning outcomes, courses, assessment, community partnerships
• Developing new courses