Think, Write, Learn
Students in Thinking and Writing work from a common text, Think, Write, Learn, written by Keene State faculty members Phyllis Benay, professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, and Kirsti Sandy, associate professor of English. Think, Write, Learn emerged from and continues to inform our work with students at Keene State College. Suggestions for classroom work and worksheets incorporate insights and strategies from faculty who have taught the course. The most recent edition of Think, Write, Learn reflects the value of the sustained writing project in the intellectual lives of students—both in Thinking and Writing as well as in other courses.
Library Liaisons
Each section of Thinking and Writing is assigned a librarian. The library faculty offer support for student research projects and for teaching information literacy. The contacts for Thinking and Writing instruction in the Mason Library are Peg Barrett (pbarret@keene.edu) and Kathleen Halverson (khalvers@keene.edu).
The Center for Writing
ITW faculty work closely with the staff of the Keene State College Center for Writing. Every tutor at the Center for Writing has first-hand experience developing a sustained writing project; indeed, faculty and students gain indispensible insight from tutors who have experienced the struggles—and pleasures—of such a writing challenge. The Center provides tutor liaisons who visit classes and explain the Center’s services, provide in-class workshops about a variety of topics, and who communicate faculty questions and feedback to the rest of the tutors. A list of available workshops is available at the Center’s website, http://keeneweb.org/write/. The Director of the Center, Phyllis Benay can be reached at pbenay@keene.edu and the Assistant Director, Jahleh Ghanbari at jghanbari@keene.edu.
Dinner Meetings
Two dinner meetings for faculty have been scheduled for the fall 2009 and spring 2010 semesters. These informal gatherings are useful for both new and experienced ITW faculty and offer an indispensible opportunity to gain inisght into our shared responsibility of engaging our first-year students with college-level thinking and writing. The 2009-10 meetings will be in the Thorne Sagendorph Gallery Conference Room.
