Campus Writing Program

Campus Writing Program

The CITL's Campus Writing Program (CWP) supports writing across the curriculum at IUB, defining "writing" broadly to include composing in any medium. If you ask your students to compose or would like to do so: 

  • Sign up for the CWP email list for monthly newsletters.
  • Connect with our instructional consultant specializing in writing, Layli Miron, Ph.D.
From Layli: I would love to support you in designing meaningful projects and engaging activities, grappling with generative AI, streamlining your grading and feedback, developing rubrics, using peer review workshops, and more. I hope you'll consider consulting with me (I can offer resources and feedback by email if you don't have time to meet), participating in a workshop or learning community, applying for a teaching grant, perusing resources created by my colleagues and me, and visiting our partners at Writing Tutorial Services and the Scholarly Writing Program. Please scroll down or email me to learn more about these opportunities.
 
I commonly support faculty and associate instructors with the following:
  • Designing assignments that align with learning outcomes and engage students in thinking critically about course concepts.
  • Grading written work consistently and transparently by developing rubrics and norming with other instructors.
  • Developing materials and guidelines to promote academic integrity and critical AI literacy given gen AI's ability to "write."
  • Providing feedback on students' writing efficiently and effectively and considering opportunities for them to revise work or otherwise transfer their learning.

In a consultation, we can discuss why and how to...

  • Craft meaningful and transparent writing assignments 
  • Build the writing process into courses 
  • Consider the role of generative AI
  • Work effectively with international and multilingual writers 
  • Grade fairly and efficiently 
  • Use rubrics effectively 
  • Train AIs, GAs, and UTAs to grade and respond to writing 
  • Comment productively on student papers 
  • Integrate brief writing assignments into courses 
  • Use visual texts as writing prompts 
  • Integrate peer review successfully into courses 
  • Effectively propose and teach Intensive Writing (IW) courses
  • Anything else related to teaching with writing

If you have a teaching question unrelated to writing, please reach out to the CITL.

To support you with teaching writing, we offer one-time workshops as well as more sustained communities of practice.

  • Workshops: Upcoming workshops can be found by scrolling down on this page. We can also facilitate workshops for your department or group, including training sessions for teaching assistants.
  • Communities: We bring together instructors from across the disciplines to discuss challenges and opportunities in writing instruction. In spring 2026, we are offering a faculty learning community, "Investigating Writing in the Disciplines." Learn more and apply! Priority deadline is November 21.

We offer grants to faculty members who would like to deepen their students' learning through writing activities or assignments. Each grant awardee will receive $1,500 to support course design over summer term, as well as intensive support from the instructional consultant. Applications are due in February. For more information, please visit Summer Writing-Teaching Grants.

The following guidance has been researched and composed by the Campus Writing Program:

In addition, please refer to writing-related posts on the CITL Blog, including:

If you want to learn more about a topic not yet listed here, please let us know.

Indiana University Bloomington offers other programs that complement the Campus Writing Program:

If you'd like support for your own writing, check out the Scholarly Writing Program.

If you're seeking services for your students, please contact Writing Tutorial Services (WTS). Students can schedule an appointment online for WTS’s Wells Library or Cultural Center locations (tutoring in the Academic Support Commons is on a walk-in basis). Instructors can request a class visit to introduce WTS to their students, or arrange a course-specific tutor by emailing wts@iu.edu.

 

2025 Workshops & Events

Can't make a workshop? Reach out for the recording and materials.