Beginning in school, and continuing at successively higher levels across their college studies, students should prepare for twenty-first-century challenges by gaining: Knowledge of Human Cultures and the Physical and Natural World Through study in the …
Foundations for Teaching with Writing
DOING MORE WITH LESS: STREAMLINING YOUR WRITING CURRICULUM
Professor David Zimmerman, Department of English I have designed many undergraduate literature courses in my eighteen years at UW-Madison on topics ranging from American Dream literature to “Imagining Apocalypse.” The same question has guided the …
PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE FOR THE TEACHING OF WRITING
This statement is informed by research and scholarly conversations in writing studies, education, linguistics, and other related fields, and includes important professional principles that guide effective teaching with writing. It provides an excellent overview of …
Why Should You Use Writing Assignments in Your Teaching?
Brad Hughes, Director, Writing Across the Curriculum, University of Wisconsin-Madison Why should you use writing assignments in your teaching? That’s an important question. Even though this is a Writing Across the Curriculum website, designed to …
Some Guidelines for Respecting Language Diversity in Writing
Writing Across the Curriculum UW students bring a rich variety of dialects and languages to the classroom, giving instructors who use writing in their classes a unique opportunity to build on students’ linguistic resources. Unfortunately, …
Why Learning to Write Well in College Is Difficult
Bill Cerbin, Assistant to the Provost, UW-La Crosse Terry Beck, Department of English, UW-La Crosse The following list is not, of course, meant to rationalize sub-par writing by college students. Nor can one course …
Explaining to Students Why They Should Write in Your Course
Dr. Michelle Harris Dr. Janet Batzli Biocore Why Write? The Biology Core Curriculum (Biocore) is a four semester, laboratory-intensive, writing-intensive intercollege honors program. Each fall, approximately 160 students enter the sequence through Biocore 301/302. …
National Council of Teachers of English: Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing
Approved in February 2016, this revised statement replaces the NCTE Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing (November 2004), now sunsetted. http://www.ncte.org/positions/statements/teaching-writing A subcommittee of the NCTE Executive Committee wrote the NCTE Beliefs about the Teaching …