Writing-Integrated Teaching is an award-winning Arts & Science program that helps instructors and academic units embed discipline-specific writing instruction into undergraduate courses and programs.
The program follows Writing Across the Curriculum scholarship, with writing instruction tailored to the disciplinary norms and genres that undergraduate students are learning in their programs.
Unit-Level Support for Writing Pedagogy
WIT helps undergraduate Arts & Science academic units:
- Develop writing goals for undergraduate students at both the course and program level
- Create assignments and rubrics that help students develop their writing and learn course content
- Incorporate learning-to-write and writing-to-learn activities into courses
- Mentor and train teaching assistants to improve the teaching of writing at the undergraduate level.
Funding for Additional Teaching Assistant (TA) Support
To support these activities, WIT provides participating academic units with additional funding to:
- Hire a Lead Writing Teaching Assistant (LWTA) to support course instructors and teaching assistants in the unit, and
- Increase the contract hours for TAs to undertake WIT-related work (e.g., receive additional training and develop resources for WIT-designated courses).
Get Started
To learn more about Writing-Integrated Teaching, contact wit@utoronto.ca or visit the Writing-Integrated Teaching SharePoint site.