Faculty & Research

Jan A. Pechenik
Professor
Invertebrate Zoology and Marine Biology

Writing Workshops conducted for faculty

I offer half-day, full-day, and day-and-a half workshops on a variety of topics. I have also met directly with students at a variety of institutions. I directed the Writing Across the Curriculum program at Tufts for 6 years, from 1998-2001 and from 2005-2008.

Typical Topics:

  • Using writing to teach science
  • Teaching students to summarize information
  • Giving students something to say: Teaching students to read data
  • Using informal (ungraded) writing to teach, explore, and develop ideas
  • Guiding student revision (and without killing ourselves in the process—how to put the work on the students' shoulders, where it will do the most good)
  • How to get effective peer editing from students
  • The role of oral presentation in getting good writing from students
  • Designing assignments that teach
  • Designing useful grading rubrics—why? how?

Science Writing Workshops Presented:

Eastern Connecticut State University Simon's Rock of Bard College
Harvard University Swarthmore College
Lafayette College University of South Carolina
Long Island University Wellesley College
University of Rhode Island Plymouth State College
Northern Arizona University Gordon College
College of Wooster Flinders University (Australia)
University of Canterbury (New Zealand) Franklin and Marshall College
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Smith College
Wilkes University Westfield State College

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