Composition Course Information for Faculty and Staff

11-11:50 a.m. Thursday, February 12, 2026, 6 Rohrbach Library or via Zoom
We all know that assigning writing is valuable for building our students’ writing skills, fostering critical thinking, and enabling self-expression. But when A.I. is ever-present, how do you successfully assign substantial writing assignments? In this session, we will share pedagogical and technological strategies, tools, and techniques on how encourage students to use or not use A.I. responsibly for your assignments. If you have an assignment, reading, tool, or activity to share during this session, please email it to sleonard@kutztown.edu.

11-11:50 a.m. Thursday, February 26, 2026, 6 Rohrbach Library or via Zoom
Last semester, many of us participated in a reading group on Teaching with A.I. where we explored A.I.’s role in education and how it might be incorporated in potentially productive ways. But there are many more recent books on A.I. that take various stances on A.I.’s effects, implications, uses, and origins. Bring a book on A.I. to share or critique.

11-11:50 a.m. Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 6 Rohrbach Library or via Zoom
“Good job.” “Ok!” “Looks fine.” How do we encourage our students to leave each other more engaged and thoughtful peer review comments? This session will go over productive techniques in teaching students how to peer review and how to empower them to become more engaged in this stage of the writing process.

11-11:50 a.m. Tuesday, March 31, 2026, 6 Rohrbach Library or via Zoom
There are numerous A.I. tools that purport to help researchers in the research process. Are any of them good? We will find out in this session where we will test various A.I.-driven tools for their accuracy and potential for pedagogical use. Additionally, we will discuss ideas for assignments and lessons intended to foster A.I. literacy during the research process.

11-11:50 a.m. Thursday, April 9, 2026, 6 Rohrbach Library or via Zoom
What do podcasts, presentations, videos, games, blogs, or more have in common? Writing! This presentation will introduce some potential assignments that employ multiple modes of composition and expression. If you wish to share a multimodal composition assignment from your course, email me at sleonard@kutztown.edu.

Remember to include the April 13th KUCC (Kutztown University Composition Conference) on your course and personal calendars!

11-11:50 a.m. Tuesday, April 21, 2026, 6 Rohrbach Library or via Zoom
How do we teach students to have control over the register and rules of academic etiquette in their writing without breaking out worksheets and hearing a chorus of yawns? This session gives some ideas on how students can more intentionally experiment with their own writing and become more keenly aware of the stylistic expectations in academic genres of writing.

Questions or ideas for a Comp Convo that you want to share? Email Sandi Leonard at sleonard@kutztown.edu. A certificate of acknowledgement of your professional development is given after 5 or more hours of your attendance and participation at these sessions.