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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