NC State Campus Writing and Speaking Program

WOLF — Written and Oral Literacy Facilitation logo

Written and Oral Literacy Facilitation — a faculty development program that builds communication-rich courses across the curriculum.

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A structured partnership between CWSP and your department

WOLF pairs faculty with a CWSP liaison to audit communication practices, design scaffolded assignments, and build evidence of student learning. The program runs in three phases and adapts to the needs of any discipline.

Phase 01

Inquiry

Understand the current state of writing and speaking in your course or curriculum. Map what students are asked to do and how those tasks connect to disciplinary communication.

Phase 02

Design

Build or revise scaffolded assignments with explicit instruction, modeling, and low-stakes practice. Align tasks to learning outcomes.

Phase 03

Evidence

Assess student work, document what changed, and contribute to program-level data on communication learning across the university.

Designed for faculty, departments, and programs

WOLF works at the course level, the program level, or both. Whether you are redesigning a single assignment or rethinking how communication is taught across a sequence of courses, CWSP liaison support can meet you where you are.

Individual faculty

Revise or build a communication assignment

Work with a liaison to scaffold a writing or speaking task, develop a rubric, and gather evidence of student growth.

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Departments & programs

Audit communication across a curriculum

Map what your program currently asks of students, identify gaps, and build a shared language for disciplinary communication.

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Liaisons

Access tools and resources for your work

Find the Liaison Guide, WSCP Working Template, scaffolding strategies, assessment tools, the AI Literacies extension, and AI Policy Lab workshop materials.

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C²TC Communication Teaching Certificate

C²TC — the Communication Teaching Certificate — takes its name from the two foundational modes of academic communication, written and oral, that anchor the program's three certificate tracks.

Faculty who want to go deeper into communication pedagogy can earn a certificate through C²TC — CWSP's self-paced professional development program. Three certificate tracks cover written, digital, and oral communication instruction, each built around research-based frameworks and your own course materials.

Written Communication

Writing transfer, feedback, and discipline-specific instruction

Three core modules covering writing transfer theory, evidence-based feedback strategies, and genre-based assignment design using the DAPOE framework.

Digital Communication

Multimodal pedagogy, digital assignment design, and assessment

Frameworks for teaching and assessing digital genres, including accessibility requirements, tool selection, and portfolio approaches to digital learning.

Oral Communication

Public speaking instruction and assessment across disciplines

In development for Spring 2026. Covers communication apprehension, disciplinary speaking conventions, and rubric design for oral performance.

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Reach out to discuss whether WOLF is a fit for your course or program. First conversations are exploratory — no commitment required.

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