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The Serie Center provides faculty with resources to reflect on and invest in their writing pedagogy. We utilize both our own colleagues and outside experts to lead hands-on workshops that familiarize faculty with best practices and strategies for cultivating students’ writing habits and skills. We develop tools and resources that faculty can use to enhance their teaching, such as Write Well Microlectures and . Brigetta (Britt) Abel (Associate Dean of Academic Success) is Director of Writing and coordinates Macalester’s writing initiatives, Abel provides one-on-one consultations for individual faculty in all disciplines. She supports the general education writing requirement and the assessment of students’ writing and communication skills. She provides focused training for embedded student writing assistants and preceptors across the disciplines.

Writing General Education Resources 

• General Education Designation Forms
•  (Rubric based on the writing gen ed requirement; feel free to use and/or modify)
•  (reminder of important information to cover in your writing assignment prompt)

Anti-racist writing pedagogy

•  (Catherine Savini, Inside Higher Ed, January 2021)
• (Jake Mohan, August 2020)
•  (Jake Mohan)
•  (Asao B. Inoue, 2019)
• “” (from bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, Routledge, 1994, pp 167-175)
•  (brief introductory video); see also Young’s piece  (Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies Vol 12, Issue 1, Article 10, 2010)
• Jamila Lyiscott (two videos)

Questions?

If you have questions about any of these writing-related initiatives, please contact: Britt Abel Director of Writing [email protected].