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Foundations for Teaching with Writing

LIBERAL EDUCATION AND AMERICA’S PROMISE (LEAP): ESSENTIAL LEARNING OUTCOMES

Posted on July 22, 2019

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 …

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DOING MORE WITH LESS: STREAMLINING YOUR WRITING CURRICULUM

Posted on July 2, 2019

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 …

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PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE FOR THE TEACHING OF WRITING

Posted on July 2, 2019

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 …

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Why Should You Use Writing Assignments in Your Teaching?

Posted on July 25, 2017

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 …

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Some Guidelines for Respecting Language Diversity in Writing

Posted on July 12, 2017

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, …

Posted in Foundations for Teaching with WritingTagged Diversity, Language

Why Learning to Write Well in College Is Difficult

Posted on July 11, 2017

  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 …

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Explaining to Students Why They Should Write in Your Course

Posted on July 12, 2017

  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. …

Posted in Foundations for Teaching with WritingTagged biocore, foundations, learning, teaching, writing

National Council of Teachers of English: Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing

Posted on July 12, 2017

  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 …

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