Spring Calendar
Below is our 2025 schedule of events. To register for an event, simply click the registration link for your chosen event. Once registered, you will receive further information via email.
Guest Workshops and Events
"Making Writing Meaningful"
Based on the results of a multi-institutional study, the Meaningful Writing Project, this hands-on workshop will help faculty (re)design assignments to foster their students’ meaningful writing experiences in all disciplinary contexts.
- Speaker: Neal Lerner, Northeastern University
- Location: Naugle Communication Center (447 Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons)
- Date: Tuesday, March 4
"Generative AI and Academic Writing: Benefits, Challenges, and a Literacy Framework"
This workshop equips faculty across disciplines with a nuanced understanding of how students might engage with generative AI technologies (GAI) in academic writing. Participants will examine various uses of GAI throughout the writing process, considering both their potential benefits and challenges, before developing strategies for addressing GAI-assisted writing in their courses. The session will also introduce a framework for AI literacy in the classroom to help instructors foster critical engagement with GAI while maintaining academic integrity and promoting learning.
- Speakers: Sarah Fredericks and Moinak Chaudhury, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Location: Naugle Communication Center (447 Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons)
- Date: Wednesday, March 26, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
"Supporting High-Level Copyediting for Native and Non-Native Undergraduates"
This workshop will address how faculty can help students become better editors of their own writing, with a particular focus on the challenges faced by non-native speakers of English. Participants will gain insight into why students struggle with editing their own work and learn strategies that they can easily and immediately implement in their courses—just in time for final paper deadlines!
- Speakers: Michael Lehman and Caitlin Kelly, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Location: Naugle Communication Center (447 Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons)
- Date: Wednesday, April 16, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Course Enhancement Workshops
TechWrites offers three opportunities for faculty and staff to develop writing assignments, focusing on three key elements: the assignment prompt, effective assessment, and mid-project interventions.
"Crafting Assignments that Generate Good Writing"
In this interactive online workshop, participants will learn how to create writing assignments with clear objectives and that model for students good writing practices. Participants are encouraged, but not required, to bring an assignment they'd like to revise and update.
- Speaker: Caitlin Kelly, Director of Naugle Communication Center
- Date: Wed, Feb. 5 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
"Grade Smarter, Not Harder: The Power of Rubrics"
This session will focus on the development and application of clear, structured rubrics to help students understand the hallmarks of effective writing in your class and/or discipline. By attending, you will gain practical strategies for creating rubrics that support student success and promote more efficient and transparent writing feedback to your students.
- Speaker: Melissa Ianetta, Executive Director of Writing and Communication
- Date: Tue, Mar. 11 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
"Writing Interventions: Embedding Assessment Before the Final Draft"
In the final workshop of this series, participants will consider ways to scaffold opportunities for beneficial feedback and self-assessment prior to assignment submission. Participants are encouraged, though not required, to bring an assignment in development they wish to further develop.
- Speaker: Jessica Rose, TechWrites Programming Associate
- Date: Tue, Apr. 8 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
About TechWrites
TechWrites is a year-long initiative designed to enhance the support for student writing across the Georgia Tech campus. Funded by the Provost’s Teaching and Learning Grant and with the support of the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Office of Undergraduate Education, TechWrites seeks to (1) construct a picture of the university's writing culture and (2) empower instructional faculty with tools and strategies to elevate student writing across Georgia Tech’s diverse learning environments.
Events are open to all Georgia Tech Community members. Course Enhancement workshops are specifically designed for those staff and faculty who include writing assignments in undergraduate classes, including TAs, postdocs, and faculty (tenure-track and non-tenure-track).
Workshops and Events
TechWrites programming includes a series of workshops - led by both Tech faculty and guests - devoted to integrating advanced writing approaches into course planning across disciplines.
Guest Lectures and Workshops
These events feature field leaders, who share their strategies, wisdom, and expertise. Course Enhancement workshops guide participants through the best practices in assignment design for writing projects and offer time and support to develop or redesign one key writing assignment.
Course Enhancement Workshops
The Course Enhancement workshops offer three opportunities to think ahead and develop your future courses with writing in mind. Each event is conveniently held online; once registered, you will receive a link to your event, along with event details.
Because these workshops are designed for staff and faculty looking to further integrate writing into their courses, we ask that attendants come prepared with an assignment in mind, and materials to update and rework. Also note, the Course Enhancement workshops are designed to lead faculty through reworking an assignment from instructions to assessment, attendees are welcome to attend just one.
Featured Speakers
We are delighted to announce that our speakers for the 2024-25 program include:
- Dr. Carolyne M. King, Assistant Professor of Writing Studies, and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and Writing in the Disciplines (WID) at Old Dominion University.
- Dr. Neal Lerner, Professor of English at Northeastern University and coauthor of Learning to Communicate in Science and Engineering: Case Studies from MIT
Acknowledgements
This initiative is made possible through the support of the following Georgia Tech partners: the Office of Undergraduate Education (OUE), Georgia Tech's Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), and the Provost Teaching and Learning Initiative.