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NCC T he L ittle T rain T hat D id! Successfully Writing to the New Criteria!. Northwest Iowa Community College Sheldon, IA. Your Conductors Today Are:. Steve Pearce Rhonda Pennings Gretchen Bartelson Alethea Stubbe. All Aboard!. Organizing & Getting Started. Steve Pearce - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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NCCTThe he LLittle ittle TTrainrain
TThat hat DDid!id!Successfully Writing to the New Criteria!
Northwest Iowa Community CollegeSheldon, IA
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Your Conductors Today Are:
• Steve Pearce
• Rhonda Pennings
• Gretchen Bartelson
• Alethea Stubbe
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All Aboard!
Steve PearceNCA Co-Chair
Organizing & Getting Started
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• NCC
• Organization
• Advantages
• NCA Alert – Campus
NewslettersAll
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Leaving the Station
Rhonda PenningsNCA Editing Team
The writing of the first drafts and the first work of editing.
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• Writing in teams
• First Drafts & First Editing
• Institutional Challenges
• Food helpsLea
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Keeping on Track In spite of Detours, Delays
& Changes in Destination.
Gretchen BartelsonEditing Team – Final Editor
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Main Issues
The Editor
Avoiding Duplication & the New Criteria
Writing Tips
Graphic Design & LayoutKee
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& Editing team
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rack • Find an editor with the
time to do the Job!
• Get a good technical writer
• Maybe a journalist or a
grant-writer
The Editor & Editing TeamThe Editor & Editing Team
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Don’t write in Silos!
The Editor or The Editor or Editing TeamEditing Team must work with all writing teams from the beginning.
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An Editing Editing TeamTeam with representatives from all Writing Teams?
The Editor & Editing TeamThe Editor & Editing Team
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Have a Retreat
Spend time analyzing the
• 5 Criteria
• 21 Core Components
• and suggested patterns of evidence
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New CriteriaNew Criteria
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Writing to the New Criteria
• Redundancy, redundancy & more redundancy!
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Maybe not!Maybe not!
• Schedule brain-storming sessions
& Turn the Ball!Turn the Ball!
New CriteriaNew Criteria
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Turning the Ball … or learning to take a look
at something from all sides – even if it is round.
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• When two groups use the same evidence for different points – are they making the right distinction?
• What are they looking for? Look at the language.
New CriteriaNew Criteria
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• Mission and Integrity
• Preparing for the Future
• Student Learning & Effective Teaching
• Acquisition, Discovery & Application of Knowledge
• Engagement and Service Kee
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It’s about Your CollegeYour College!
• Find YOUR OWNYOUR OWN patterns of
evidence.
• SnapshotSnapshot of your college –
set an end date for data/
language.
• What are YOUYOU good at?Kee
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New CriteriaNew Criteria
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It’s about Your CollegeYour College!
• None of us does it all
• Don’t hide your shortcomings –
admit them.
• Try to have a plan for
addressing those shortcomings
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New CriteriaNew Criteria
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• We avoided redundancy by putting common material in the appendix/resource room
• We looked at what was really different about similar patterns of evidence
• Combined patterns that were similar
• Used introductory paragraphs about key ideas
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The Mysterious
• They did appear!
• We used pull-out quotes in the margins and color coded them.
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CCROSSROSS C CUTTING UTTING THEMESTHEMES
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Our New Branding
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Writing tips
• Make it clear and easy to read
• Use a journalistic approach to
writing.
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Writing TipsWriting Tips
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The Inverted PyramidThe Inverted Pyramid
Put the most important information first
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Put the supporting information elsewhere
Writing TipsWriting Tips
Use Language that is descriptive and to the point.
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Lori Richards – the other
member of our team!
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Get a GREAT Graphic Designer!
Layout & DesignLayout & Design
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Layout & Design
• Graphically outline the criteria, core components and patterns of evidence.
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Layout & DesignLayout & Design
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Layout & DesignLayout & Design
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• Lots of white space & judicious use of color.
Layout & DesignLayout & Design
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Black & Blue
Color in Charts
Layout & DesignLayout & Design
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• 12 pt Times Roman & about 1.25 spacing
• 2 inch margin on the right for appearance and for note taking.
Layout & DesignLayout & Design
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2 Inch Margins
Layout & DesignLayout & Design
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Do not make the reader Do not make the reader
look for anything – ever!look for anything – ever!
• Put page numbers for the appendix in the self-study
• Websites
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Layout & DesignLayout & Design
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Coming intothe Station
Alethea StubbeNCA Co-Chair
Working with the Higher Learning Commission,
Outside entities,
and the Visiting Team
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• Working with the Higher
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• Outside entities
• The Visiting Team
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Reaching our Destination
• Organized document & resource room
• Campus wide participation• Honest snapshot – reflected who
we were• Plans to address issues – esp.
assessment• Demonstrated ability to get things
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The View from the Caboose….
Questions? Th
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