Keynote Speakers: Marian Staats & Carol Bustamante

Keynote Speakers
Marian Staats &
Carol Bustamante

Across the Curriculum:
Planning, Writing, Grading

The Fifth Oakton Conference for Teaching Excellence (OCTE) - August 18, 2006

Carol Bustamante is an Associate Professor of English and has been teaching at Oakton since Fall of 2003. She has a B.S. in Mass Communications from Bradley University, and an M.A. in English and Sociology from DePaul University.

Marian Staats is an Assistant Professor of English and has been teaching at Oakton since Fall of 2001. She has a B.A. in Psychology from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. in English from Loyola University Chicago.

Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) is not a new concept, but it remains a vital one. The key is to have faculty embrace this concept and then have the tools to put it to work. Why embrace Writing Across the Curriculum? Because writing involves higherlevel thinking as it develops a complex set of skills that will serve our students well throughout their educational careers and beyond. Students who write well are students who write often. If you agree, then come and learn how to design effective writing assignments that will engage your students.

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