<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="m_-1908014241043027048gmail-docs-internal-guid-6f56c3e9-7fff-c1f1-9741-450200fc67e5"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear Faculty, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Writing Across the Curriculum Committee (WACC) wants to know how SUNY Plattsburgh faculty assess student writing. This is in our effort to help faculty be on the same page for writing standards, as well as support socially-just writing pedagogy.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We would like to collect samples of your writing assignments as you presented them to your students (e.g., prompts or other descriptions) and accompanying grading criteria/checklists/rubrics. To be clear, we are not asking for any </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">student </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">writing samples. We are particularly interested in getting samples from all three academic schools: Arts & Sciences, Business & Economics, and Education, Health, and Human Services. The samples that you provide will be shared with all staff and faculty on campus via the WACC Moodle site, with the goal of helping you craft your writing assignments. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you have a sample you would like to share, please email it to Regan Levitte at </span><a href="mailto:rlevi007@plattsburgh.edu" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">rlevi007@plattsburgh.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> or Suzannah Chatlos </span><a href="mailto:suzannah.chatlos@plattsburgh.edu" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">suzannah.chatlos@plattsburgh.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. You may also contact either Regan or Suzannah if you have any questions about this initiative. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thank you,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The WACC</span></p>

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<div style="display:block;font-size:14px;font-weight:bold;text-transform:uppercase">SHAWNA Mefferd Kelty<span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:0.9em">, PhD</span></div>
<div style="display:block">(she, her, hers)</div>Chair / Associate Professor of Theatre
<div style="display:block">President-Elect, Mid-America Theatre Conference</div><div style="display:block">Coordinator, KCACTF Region 1 Fringe<br></div><div style="display:block">Drama Editor, <i>The Saranac Review</i></div><div style="display:block">CTE Faculty Advisory Board Member<br></div><div style="display:block">Chair, Writing Across the Curriculum Committee<br></div><div style="display:block">Faculty Senate Theatre Representative<br></div><div style="display:block"><br></div><div style="display:block"><a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/772470" target="_blank">Spinning Truth(s), Myths, Gossip, and Facts in the Theatre History Classroom</a></div>
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