This 60-minute interactive workshop will allow participants to explore some visual tactile pedagogies and apply these to teaching academic writing in STEM subjects. Three different creative and unorthodox techniques were developed by the workshop presenters who met through the East Midlands Writing PAD network. These techniques can be used in any discipline to break down student barriers to writing.
The workshop will comprise a brief introduction to the topic followed by three activities:
1. The postcard technique: using image associations to facilitate thinking around a topic stimulate debate and warm up to writing;
2. Reframing: a visual structure for a staged interrogation of a topic;
3. The Dress-Up Doll of Formality: a way of exploring different genres to assist with establishing the rules the writing needs to follow.
Participants will be invited to share their experiences via the Writing PAD East Midlands blog and Twitter feed (@DMUwritingpad).
