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Welcome to NuWrite, Northwestern University’s online writing community, sponsored by the Writing Program, the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, Academic and Research Technologies, and the University Library. With support from the Provost’s Office and the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, this site has been developed for two groups of people as part of Northwestern's commitment to the educational community: (1) students who want help with core writing skills and models and advice about writing for specific purposes and (2) faculty seeking resources and conversation about writing instruction and related forms of communication.
The site is organized both by resources and interest groups, such as those listed as "communities" on the home page. Resources are readily available and can be found through the search box. Resources and conversation are also available through the communities that share common tasks or interests. While some of the communities are limited to community members, many are open to faculty, students, and even the public.
Why this resource? Because better writing promotes deeper learning. NuWrite is the result of Writing Program conversations among faculty from many departments, WP faculty ideas, and several research studies conducted at Northwestern. All of these showed (a) faculty interest in more collaboration and engagement around writing pedagogy and (b) student and faculty desire for additional writing resources.
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Northwestern faculty are eager to help fulfill students' practical needs and to meet the intellectual challenges related to writing that research endorses. For example, a recent study (November 2008) published by the National Survey of Student Engagementand the Council of Writing Program Administrators found that "when institutions provided students with extensive, intellectually challenging writing activities, the students engaged in more deep learning activities such as analysis, synthesis, integration of ideas from various sources, and grappled more with course ideas both in and out of the classroom." NuWrite is a tool to help more members of our community use writing to help students with this deeper learning experience.
Please help us develop this site! We hope you will contribute to the NuWrite community by sending helpful material to the community column leaders, commenting on the posted resources, and/or giving us your suggestions about the site’s strengths and areas needing improvement.
If you have questions about the site or materials you would like to contribute, please contact Penny Hirsch in the Writing Program, phirsch@northwestern.edu.
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