WEC Model

Identify 1-3 courses in your curriculum to pilot writing integration (ex. 2000, 3000, capstone).

Determine what writing skills are essential for students in the discipline at this level.

Develop writing assignments or tasks, modules for instruction, and rubrics for assessment. (WEC provides templates, modules, and workshops).

Review student results in pilot courses.

• Faculty discussions, surveys, and curriculum mapping. 

• Faculty liaison committee creates a writing plan and solicits faculty feedback.

• Piloting in key courses. 

• Publication of faculty assignments and rubrics. 

• Workshops on integrating writing assignments.  

• Assessment of student achievement of writing goals for the program. 

• Program revision based on results.

• Data reviewed may include faculty writing prompts, syllabi, rubrics, and student samples.
• Faculty collectively determine disciplinary knowledge and expectations for student multimodal communication (i.e., outcomes) through stakeholder surveys and meetings.

• Faculty develop strategies to achieve outcomes which may include individual course consultations, faculty development workshops,  curriculum mapping, faculty surveys, and other approaches. 

• Faculty interpret and analyze student writing samples (or other communication forms) to determine effectiveness of the strategies, identify needs, and make recommendations for development of the plan. 

• Plan has many  iterations  
• Scales gradually 
• Targets sustainable long-term practices