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Preparing Students in Advance for Peer Review

Posted on August 25, 2017

  Stephanie White, Writing Across the Curriculum It’s important to take some time to talk about your expectations, methods, and beliefs about peer review before your first peer review of the semester. By preparing your …

Posted in Conferences and Peer ReviewTagged advice, Feedback, General, In-Class, Peer Review, Peers

Making Peer Review Work

Posted on August 25, 2017

  Kirsten Jamsen, Writing Across the Curriculum After many semesters using peer review in my own composition classes and helping colleagues in Geography, Women’s Studies, Political Science, Slavic, and Art use peer review successfully in …

Posted in Conferences and Peer ReviewTagged advice, Feedback, General, In-Class, Peer Review

Evaluating and Grading Multilingual Writing

Posted on August 24, 2017

  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 …

Posted in Teaching Multilingual WritersTagged advice, ELL, ELS, Feedback, General, Grading, Grammar, Multilingual, Rubrics

Establishing Priorities for Choosing Which Errors to Mark

Posted on August 24, 2017

  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 …

Posted in Teaching Multilingual WritersTagged Commenting, ELL, Errors, ESL, Evaluating, Feedback, Grading, Grammar, Multilingual, Responding to

Putting Grammar in Its Place… But Making Sure It Has a Place

Posted on August 20, 2017

REBECCA SCHOENIKE NOWACEKWRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM Of all the questions facing teachers of Comm-B and Writing-Intensive courses, one of the most puzzling is the question of how—and even whether—to teach grammar. For the most part, …

Posted in Coaching Students to Succeed with AssignmentsTagged advice, Feedback, General, Grammar, Writing Across the Curriculum

Offering Students Encouragement as They Revise

Posted on August 20, 2017

  Dr. Ann Burgess, Biocore In the following email sent to all students in a large course, Dr. Ann Burgess—former director of the Biocore program—encourages Biocore students to keep working on their revisions, even when …

Posted in Coaching Students to Succeed with AssignmentsTagged biocore, Email, Feedback, Revision, Undergraduate

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