"Teaching & Writing Centers: Considering Interdisciplinary Issues"
Wednesday, May 11th

What do we mean when we invoke the specter of interdisciplinarity in the classroom? And what implications does that have for student writing? Dr Becky Reed Rosenberg (Director, UW Bothell Writing Center), Emily Clark (English literature graduate student and Director of The Writing Center for American Ethnic Studies, CHID, & Women Studies) and Michelle Habell-Pallan (Associate Professor, American Ethnic Studies) bring a writing center perspective to issues of disciplinarity and student writing. In this session we will talk about the increasingly prevalent but still fuzzy notion of interdisciplinary writing, before discussing ways in which student work might engage interdisciplinarity. Along the way, we also hope the discussion will address how instructors might best convey their own intentions in assigning this type of work, and issues arising from the classroom/writing center interface. While we work in settings that are specifically designated as ‘interdisciplinary,’ we look forward to engaging in discussion with all who are interested in interdisciplinary work.

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