Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP)
#WriteOnFAMU
FAMU's Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) will use enhanced classroom activities, technology,
and campus resources to help students become better writers. As a result of the QEP,
students will achieve higher rates of course completion and improve writing skills,
be better prepared for success in grad school, and meet employer demands for strong
written communication skills.
#WriteOnFAMU
About FAMU's Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP)
Executive Summary
Florida A&M University’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), #WriteOnFAMU, seeks to create
a culture in which students become actively engaged in their learning through writing
proficiency. #WriteOnFAMU will build a campus climate in which faculty are encouraged
and supported to teach with high-impact educational practices and create opportunities
for students to: enhance their writing proficiency, reflect on their own writing,
and provide meaningful feedback to their peers.
Desired Goals and Outcomes
The #WriteOnFAMU QEP is focused on enhancing proficiency in writing.
Learning Environment Outcome
Develop a culture of writing by enhancing resources and learning environments to improve writing proficiency.
Key Activities:
- Identify writing enhancement courses across curriculums to ensure students are receiving instruction on how to improve their writing throughout their matriculation.
- Provide additional resources to the writing resource center.
- Develop a recognition/reward system for faculty, staff, and students.
Faculty Outcome
Faculty will incorporate high impact pedagogies and provide co-curricular experiences
that improve written communication skill.
Key Activities/Competencies:
- Faculty and staff value high-quality writing.
- Faculty incorporate high-impact pedagogies that improve written communication skills, such as: problem-based learning, collaborative learning, capstone projects, project-based learning, etc.
- Faculty and staff provide co-curricular experiences, such as: service learning, research, co-curricular activities, attending related campus events, attending off-campus events, etc.
Student Learning Outcome
Students will be able to effectively express thoughts and synthesize ideas using standard
English and appropriate vocabulary in quality written documents related to their disciplines.
Key Competencies:
- Explain the importance of writing in relation to learning and career success.
- Exhibit confidence in ability to effectively organize and express ideas in writing.
- Utilize Standard English and appropriate vocabulary in writing.
- Effectively proof read and edit written work, both self and peers.
- Develop career-appropriate and discipline-specific documents with well-founded perspectives related to the students' emphases.
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Utilize appropriate and relevant content to synthesize ideas within the context of the discipline in writing.
QEP Faculty & Student Resources
Faculty Resouces
Learn MoreHere, faculty will find samples of writing assignments with appropriate prompts, a variety of differentially-styled rubrics, as well as various tools for assessing writing proficiency.
Student Resouces
Learn MoreHere, students will find samples of resumes, essays, papers and reports, as well as other written works and different writing styles. These resources can be downloaded and used for free.
WAC Resouces
Learn MoreWriting Across Curriculum's most commonly understood method and practice of teaching.
Forms
- Student Writing Ambassador (Student)
- WAC Summer Institute Application (Faculty)
- #WriteOn Teacher of the Year Award Application (Faculty)
- Writing to Learn Teaching Award Application (Faculty)
- Writing Enhanced Course Certification Process
Thank you forconsidering certifying your course as a Writing Enhanced Course (WEC) in the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program at FAMU. There are two online options to certify your course. The fast track application process is for courses that already address writing proficiency and potentially already contain the requirements to be considered writing enhanced. The module certification process is for courses that may need to be tweaked to incorporate the writing enhanced course requirements. This process will take you through six modules designed to assist you in revising your syllabus to meet the requirements.