Writing across the Curriculum

Send students to the Writing Help Center (WHC) in Butler 157B or Academic Skills Center SW 320 for tutoring:

The Writing Help Center (WHC) provides a free, drop-in tutoring service for all Buffalo State students. Faculty from across the campus are able to send their students to the WHC for tutoring. Faculty are also invited to provide copies of assignments for the WHC to keep on file for tutors to reference. The Academic Skills Center provides more intensive, scheduled tutoring for students, also free of charge.

Use the tutoring contract located on the CWP website when sending students for tutoring:

The CWP makes a tutoring contract available on the CWP website for the use of faculty across the curriculum. Simply fill out the contract and send the student to the WHC for help. We keep records of student requests for tutoring sessions so that faculty are able to track student attendance.

Click here for the tutoring contract.

Use the Buffalo State common writing handbook:

Name: A Writer’s Reference, Buffalo State College Edition.
Authors: Diana Hacker and Nancy Sommers
ISBN: 978-1-4576-4177-0
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin’s

This handbook is a required text for all CWP courses. We are asking faculty across the campus to assign it as a required or recommended text for their courses, particularly if the courses are designated as writing and/or information management infused. Specific sections that will be of use include chapters on: MLA, APA, and CMS documentation styles; grammar and punctuation, conducting research, academic writing, writing in the disciplines, multimodal composing, synthesizing sources, analyzing sources, argumentation, and ESL.

We will provide a document that maps infusion category SLOs, disciplinary vocabulary, and common writing concerns to specific sections in the handbook.

Take advantage of special designate CWP courses:

The CWP offers sections of CWP that are reserved for specific populations or departments. We currently offer reserved sections for History, Communication, Exceptional Education, Elementary Education, Computer Information Systems, Honors, Learning Communities, and multilingual speakers. If your department would like the CWP to offer a section of 101 and/or 102 developed and reserved for your majors, please contact Dr. Michele Ninacs, Director of the College Writing Program.

Attend CWP sponsored workshops for faculty, including:

Using the Common Handbook across the Curriculum
Best Practices for Teaching and Grading Writing
Composition Practices and Pedagogies
Teaching Students to Write on Demand
Working with Multilingual Writers
Teaching Argumentation
Developing Multimodal Assignments
Designing Writing Assignments across the Curriculum
The College Writing Program: Practices and Pedagogies
Comp Theory: The Why & How of Writing
Using Writing in the Disciplines

Access materials from the WAC conference held on April 11, 2014:

On Friday April 11th The College Writing Program hosted a conference on the Buffalo State campus. The conference was sponsored by Bedford/St. Martin’s publishers and was entitled “At the Intersection of Writing, Technology, and Critical Thinking: WAC, WID, and General Education”. Conference sessions addressed such topics as responding to and evaluating writing, writing in the disciplines, designing writing assignments, multimodal text construction, plagiarism, grammar, peer review, using the common handbook, and a variety of other topics. Sessions were FREE to all Buffalo State faculty and staff. Faculty are encouraged to utilize session materials as a resource. To get materials from this conference, contact Michele Ninacs.