The Meaningful Writing Project (FBG)

Faculty Book Group | Spring 2018 | Meeting 2

Mar 12, 2018 [ADD TO YOUR CALENDAR]
1:00pm-2:00pm
348, James E. Walker Library (LIB)

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You are invited to join a group of colleagues who will be reading and discussing the book The Meaningful Writing Project.  

The publisher’s website describes the book as follows:

In the face of the continuing discourse of crisis in US education, The Meaningful Writing Project offers readers an affirming story of writing in higher education that shares students’ experiences in their own voices. In presenting the results of a three-year study consisting of surveys and interviews of university seniors and their faculty across three diverse institutions, authors Michele Eodice, Anne Ellen Geller, and Neal Lerner consider students’ perceptions of their meaningful writing experiences, the qualities of those experiences, and instructors’ perspectives on assignment design and delivery.

This study confirms that meaningful assignments offer students opportunities to engage with instructors, peers, and texts and are relevant to past experiences and passions as well as to future aspirations and identities. Meaningful writing occur