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UW-Seattle’s Expository Writing Program (EWP) equips over 5,000 students annually with critical writing and communication… Read full summary
- Funding received
- 2018-2019
- Small
- Awarded
- $3,000
- Funding partners
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- Services and Activities Fee (SAF)
- UW Resilience Lab (UWRL)
- Website & social links
UW-Seattle’s Expository Writing Program (EWP) equips over 5,000 students annually with critical writing and communication skills, emphasizing writing as a tool for social action and ethical engagement. Building on its history of community-based writing, EWP will pilot new courses aligned with Seattle’s Race & Social Justice and Equity & Environment Initiatives, involving collaborative projects with local organizations on issues like housing, education, and environmental justice. The program will also offer a workshop to share this work with the UW teaching community.
UW-Seattle’s Expository Writing Program (EWP) helps prepare over 5000 students each year with critical literacy, research, writing, and communication capacities that are essential for successful participation across the academy and in public life. Our program seeks to help students engage in writing as a means of social action; develop ethical communication practices; and understand and be responsible for the consequences of language use for diverse communities. Building on our program’s longstanding history of engaging undergraduate students in public and community-based writing courses, we will develop and pilot courses that engage the City of Seattle’s Race & Social Justice and Equity & Environment Initiatives. These public writing courses will ground conversations on urban equity and environmental sustainability within collaborative writing and research projects, some of which will be co-designed with local organizations working to address various interrelated issues, such as housing affordability, environmental justice, education, food security, and transportation in Seattle. Developing the creative and critical problem-solving capacities required to respond to such public problems calls for tremendous resilience and emotional strength, as well as interdisciplinary academic knowledges and other wisdoms. Our pilot coursework will be designed to help support such capacities. Our team also plans to offer a workshop for the UW teaching community on our collaboration.
Candice Rai
Project lead
- crai@uw.edu
- Affiliation
- Faculty
Jacob Huebsch
Team member
- jhuebsch@uw.edu
- Affiliation
- Staff