Writing Across the Curriculum Campus Resources Consult with UW’s ESL staff, 5134 Helen C. White (http://www.english.wisc.edu/esl, 263-3780). The ESL program offers a sequence of courses to improve the skills of multilingual students in reading, …
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Evaluating and Grading Multilingual Writing
Elisabeth Miller, Writing Across the Curriculum One of the most common questions that Writing Across the Curriculum Programs hear from instructors across disciplines is how to fairly assess the work of multilingual writers. Many …
Establishing Priorities for Choosing Which Errors to Mark
Kate Vieira and Rebecca Lorimer, Writing Across the Curriculum Instructors with multilingual writers in their classes often hear the good advice not to mark every language error in students’ papers. After all, some features …
Strategies for Working with Multilingual Writers
Writing Across the Curriculum Preparing students for writing assignments Try to make your expectations for successful writing in your course as explicit as possible. You can make expectations explicit in your syllabus, assignment handouts, …
Helping Multilingual Writers Succeed in Your Course
Writing Across the Curriculum How is a multilingual writing process different from a monolingual writing process? Research has shown that It is more laborious and takes more time. It requires more time to set …
Student Questionnaire on Language Background
Rebecca Lorimer, Writing Across the Curriculum Age (in years): Education (degree obtained or school level attended): Country of origin: Country of residence: If questions 3 and 4 are different, how long have you been …
An Introduction to Multilingual Writers at UW-Madison
Kate Vieira, Writing Across the Curriculum As most instructors know, multilingual writers form an integral part of the educational community at UW-Madison. What instructors often don’t know is how to meet the needs of …