Like Writing and Thinking, Writing to Learn introduces participants to IWT’s foundational writing-based teaching practices, but with a particular emphasis on their application to specific subject areas and disciplines. This week-long workshop is multidisciplinary: it will draw on a variety of works that might include historical sources and literary and scientific texts. The workshop focuses on using writing to build an initial understanding of texts—a crucial first step in creating formal essays or reports—and to revise this preliminary thinking as understanding deepens. We will explore how writing-to-learn practices can reshape how we teach and how the academic lecture, collaborative learning practices, and the act of listening can reinforce one another within the classroom.

This workshop is affiliated with OSUN’s Center for Liberal Arts and Sciences Pedagogy (CLASP), the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT), and the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences (FLAS) in Montenegro. The workshop is supported by Science at Risk Emergency Office and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.