Constructing a PWR Syllabus
After careful consideration of the theme, texts, and assignments,
you are ready to produce an informative, engaging, and organized
syllabus. As you draft your syllabus, you should also prepare
formal assignment handouts, peer review sheets, and evaluation
criteria for each major writing task. Designing these handouts
for use in your PWR writing class will go a long way toward helping
you think through how your course will be sequenced. The early
development of these standard materials will also substantially
decrease your workload during the quarter and allow you the flexibility
and time to make any necessary changes. Experienced instructors
find that reiterating rhetorical terminology and language from
the assignment sheet, to the peer review guideline sheet, to
the evaluation criteria sheet helps students understand how these
parts of the writing process are related and reinforces for them
some of the terms and strategies we are trying to teach them
to use effectively.
(Graduate students enrolled in the Pedagogy Seminar (397A) prepare
a complete syllabus during the fall quarter, with the final draft
ready by the last class of the term.)
(All Lecturers and Teaching Fellows maintain an electronic archive
of their syllabi and handouts on the PWR web space created for
this purpose.
