Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) at the Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing (CSTW) will present research and strategies to help faculty, writing assistants, and other professionals work more effectively with international students in U.S. classrooms by addressing some of the most significant challenges international students face when writing for American colleges and universities. Participants will have opportunities in groups to collaborate with the WAC team and their colleagues to develop concrete strategies to support international student writers in their classrooms.

After this workshop participants will be able to: 
   • Identify some of the linguistic and cultural backgrounds that international student writers draw upon while composing academic writing tasks
   • Select appropriate strategies to support international students’ 

You may register here (link is external).

If you have registered for this event, or are on the waitlist and require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate, please contact drakeinstitute@osu.edu .  Requests should be made at least two weeks prior to the event, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

All members of the University community are welcome in Drake Institute activities, programs, services, and employment —regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, HIV/AIDS status, military status, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other bases under the law.

RSVP for the workshop with the CLSE here as well as at the event webpage linked above.

 

Following the workshop, email Erica Szeyller.1 to confirm your attendance for the full event time. If you were not able to attend the full event, email Erica Szeyller.1 to discuss the possibility of 5001 course points.