Tips for submitting a WI proposal

Positively reviewed WI proposals help students to:

• think critically and include significant writing
• derive insights from selected readings
• focus on revision as a critical component of the learning process
• focus on scientific writing as a critical component of the learning process
• provide students with a variety of writing experiences

WI proposals that required revisions received suggestions like these:

• Please correct all typos, grammatical issues.
• Provide deadlines for specific writing tasks, such as when revised drafts are due, and when workshop sessions occur.
• List explicit requirements, writing assignments, and percentage of final grade.
• Include a cover letter or memo from your department chair, attesting to the worthiness of the proposal.
• Better match the course description with the syllabus.
• List on syllabus: approximately how many ‘xxx’ will be assigned and the percentage of the grade associated with these assignments.
• Will there be any in-class writing or peer-review? Will there be any other types of writing experiences?
  
• Clarify what you mean by completing the reports or drafts of the reports “to the instructor’s satisfaction.”
• Create discrete subject headings: “Course Background,” “Objectives,” and “Assignments,” and cut and pasted information under each category in a logically arranged manner.