Dan Murphree, associate professor of History, is the inaugural winner of an innovative writing instruction award named in honor of Rick Schell, UCF\u2019s vice president and chief of staff.<\/p>\n
The Schell Award for Implementing Innovative Writing Instruction in the Disciplines will be given annually to a faculty member who has demonstrated commitment to and success in improving student learning through writing instruction in his or her courses. The award commemorates Schell\u2019s enduring commitment to improving student writing at UCF.<\/p>\n
For the past two years, Murphree\u2019s American History survey courses have included 10 \u201cwriting Fridays.\u201d His students fill blue books with what he calls \u201ctheir history\u201d\u2014writing the \u201cthemes and legacies\u201d of the historical period they have read about and discussed that week in class.<\/p>\n
Accepting the award, Murphree told this year\u2019s audience of Writing Across the Curriculum Fellows that his experience as a fellow \u201ctransformed\u201d his teaching practice.<\/p>\n
Murphree will receive $500 in travel funds to present Writing across the Curriculum topic at an academic conference in his discipline.<\/p>\n
Established in 2010, the Writing Across the Curriculum program is an interdisciplinary program coordinated by the Department of Writing and Rhetoric that assists faculty in all disciplines in their efforts to strengthen student writing and use writing to improve learning in their courses and programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dan Murphree, associate professor of History, is the inaugural winner of an innovative writing instruction award named in honor of Rick Schell, UCF\u2019s vice president and chief of staff. The Schell Award for Implementing Innovative Writing Instruction in the Disciplines will be given annually to a faculty member who has demonstrated commitment to and success in improving student learning through…","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":58856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17023,1286,2175],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-58855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colleges","tag-college-of-arts-and-humanities","tag-department-of-writing-and-rhetoric","tag-history"],"yoast_head":"\n