Writing Across the Curriculum

Dr. Donna Sullivan became WAC certified in 2008 and is now an active member of the WAC community. She is serving on the WAC Committee for the first time this year and facilitated at this year's Fall WAC Workshop.

To prepare her students for high stakes writing assignments, Dr. Sullivan uses low stakes and medium stakes journaling assignments!

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	Dr. Donna Sullivan became WAC certified in 2008 and is now an active member of the WAC community. She is serving on the WAC Committee for the first time this year and facilitated at this year's Fall WAC Workshop. To prepare her students for high stakes writing assignments, Dr. Sullivan uses low stakes and medium stakes journaling assignments!

	Student Sample Obituary Sample	Low Stakes Journals Journaling is a great way to get your ideas down on paper without the stress of a big assignment. Concept Journals The purpose of keeping a concepts journal is to help you interpret concepts in ways that make sense to you. You may draw out ideas, use pictures from magazines, images from the internet, map out connections, and use words to describe and interpret concepts. Be creative. The important thing is to define each concept, explain its usual meaning, and provide an illustrative example plus a non-example for each. You may use the Frayer Model worksheets if you’d like. Medium Stakes Journals Journaling can also be used effectively as medium stakes writing. This journal assignment requires more time and planning than the Low Stakes assignments and requires a rubric. Obituary Journal Though we hate to think about it, we will all die someday, even you and me. Imagine what an obituary might say about your life sometime in the very far future, after your retirement. How do you want the world to remember you? What do you hope to accomplish in your time left? Objective: To create a journalistic testimony to the fact that a life (yours) had been lived, and that life had counted for something of significance in its having been lived. Directions: Obituaries are to be written as a narrative with paragraphs and sentences, not as a check list. Highlight those important aspects of your life such as your family, career, hobbies and interests, educational attainment, and church or community involvement. Try to be optimistic about your future and your impact. Detailed Procedures and Rubric
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