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Life Writing for Students and Our Communities

Fostering Writing Skills Across Academic, Professional, and Civic Realms

  • Higher Education
  • Event
  • On-demand
  • Composition Lunch & Learn
  • English – First-Year Composition
  • 35 Minutes
  • On-Demand Video

Description

After our students complete their degrees, they will have decades of life to experience in the professional, civic, and personal realms of life. In this workshop, we discuss ways in which teachers can help students to prepare for writing in those settings in the future. How can we tweak our instruction just a little so that students understand how writing in those other realms is just as important as academic writing? How can we facilitate transfer of writing skills and knowledge? Further, how can we take our teaching practices outside our colleges and universities to serve our communities in rewarding and meaningful ways?

About Your Speaker

  • Duane Roen -

    Duane Roen

    Duane Roen is Professor of English at Arizona State University, where he serves as Coordinator for the Project for Writing and Recording Family History.  At ASU, he has also served as Dean of the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts; Dean of University College; Vice Provost; Head of Interdisciplinary Studies; Head of Humanities and Arts; Director of Composition; Co-director of the graduate program in Rhetoric, Composition, and Linguistics; Director of the Center for Learning and Teaching Excellence; and President of the Academic Senate. At Syracuse University, he served as Director of the Writing Program. At the University of Arizona, he was Founding Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English, as well as Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English. He has served as Secretary of the Conference on College Composition and Communication and President of the Council of Writing Program Administrators. Throughout his career, he has written extensively about writing instruction.