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Eberly College of Arts & Sciences SpeakWrite and Writing Studio Helping students and faculty become better communicators
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Our mission is to guide effective communication across disciplines with a common framework of questions.
 
 

The SpeakWrite Mission

The SpeakWrite initiative supports thoughtful pedagogy and curriculum design as well as a sense of community among faculty and students in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. 

Goals

  • Use questions related to purpose, audience, conventions, and trouble spots (PACT) to guide effective speaking and writing.
  • Use the PACT framework to analyze and explain how a communication has succeeded or failed.  
  • Use the PACT framework to connect learning across different courses, disciplines, and communication contexts.

Actions

  • SpeakWrite Courses emphasize effective written or spoken communication skills.
  • SpeakWrite Programs (across the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences) require significant writing or speaking assignments in  over half the courses within their respective majors
  • SpeakWrite students learn PACT (P for purpose, A for audience,  C for conventions, and T for trouble) to analyze communication in a wide range of situations.

Advisory Board and Feedback

The SpeakWrite Advisory Board guides the initiative and includes faculty representatives from SpeakWrite Certified programs that represent the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences.

PACT Circle graphic; P for purpose, A for audience, C for conventions, T for trouble.
 
 
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Certified Majors and Courses
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SpeakWrite for Faculty
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SpeakWrite for Students
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Meet Our Advisory Board