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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

Conferencing with Students About Group Writing Assignments

Posted on August 25, 2017

  Julie Collins, Biology 151/152 Conferencing with groups of student writers working collaboratively on writing assignments has its own challenges, and there are multiple ways you can ensure that students are motivated to participate in …

Posted in Conferences and Peer ReviewTagged Biology, Conferencing, General, Office Hours, One-on-One, Talking about student writing

Preparing for Student-Teacher Conferences

Posted on August 25, 2017

  Writing Across the Curriculum Example #1 NAME: APPOINTMENT DAY AND TIME: Class is cancelled Monday, October 2, and Wednesday, October 4 in order to make time for one‑on‑one conferences. Your conference counts as class …

Posted in Conferences and Peer ReviewTagged advice, Conferencing, Examples, General, Office Hours, One-on-One, Questionnaire, Talking about student writing

Save Time by Making One-on-One Conferences as Efficient as Possible

Posted on August 25, 2017

  John Bean Distinguish Between Higher-Order and Lower-Order Concerns Conferences are most productive if you concentrate first on the higher-order concerns of ideas, organization, development, and overall clarity as opposed to lower-order concerns of style, …

Posted in Conferences and Peer ReviewTagged advice, Conferencing, General, Office Hours, One-on-One, Talking about student writing

Preparing for Effective One-on-One Conferencing

Posted on August 25, 2017

  Dawn Biehler, Geography One-on-one conferencing yields the best results if you Prepare well so you can think on your feet during the conference. Convey a strong message to students about the strengths and weaknesses …

Posted in Conferences and Peer ReviewTagged advice, Conferencing, General, Office Hours, semester, Talking about student writing

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

Strategies for Working with Multilingual Writers

Posted on August 24, 2017

  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, …

Posted in Teaching Multilingual WritersTagged advice, ELL, ESL, General, Multilingual

Helping Multilingual Writers Succeed in Your Course

Posted on August 24, 2017

  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 …

Posted in Teaching Multilingual WritersTagged advice, ELL, ESL, General, Multilingual

Twelve Common Errors: A Student Self-Editing Guide

Posted on August 21, 2017

  The Writing Center, writing.wisc.edu The following list contains only brief examples and explanations intended for you to use as reminders while you are editing your papers. To learn more: Take a free grammar or …

Posted in Coaching Students to Succeed with AssignmentsTagged advice, Examples, General, Grammar, Students, Undergraduate

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

Designing Activities and Assignments to Discourage Plagiarism

Posted on August 20, 2017

  Alice J. Robison, Bonnie K. Smith, Writing Across the Curriculum Plagiarism is a serious topic raised frequently when we talk about responding to student writing, and it makes sense that we should want to …

Posted in Coaching Students to Succeed with AssignmentsTagged advice, Assignments, General, Plagiarism, Revision

Using a Reverse Outline to Revise

Posted on August 20, 2017

  Rebecca Schoenike Nowacek, English What is a reverse outline? If a regular outline is something you write before you draft out your paper, a reverse outline is something you do after you write a …

Posted in Coaching Students to Succeed with AssignmentsTagged advice, Draft, English, General, Outline, Revise

Revising Paragraphs

Posted on August 20, 2017

  Professor David Zimmerman, English Topic sentences are the most important sentences of your essay. They provide the scaffolding or frame for your argument. The function of a body paragraph in an analytical essay is …

Posted in Coaching Students to Succeed with AssignmentsTagged advice, English, General, Paragraphs, Revision

Teaching Revision

Posted on August 20, 2017

  Rebecca Lorimer and Rebecca Schoenike Nowacek, Writing Across the Curriculum Revision, revision, revision: the term is nearly a mantra in Comm-B and Writing-Intensive (WI) courses. Indeed, the university criteria for Comm-B and Writing-Intensive courses …

Posted in Coaching Students to Succeed with AssignmentsTagged advice, General, Revision

Tips for Writing an Assignment and Teaching It to Students

Posted on August 10, 2017

UW-Madison’s Writing Across the Curriculum Program Here are some suggestions to keep in mind as you write your assignment handouts, as well as suggestions for other activities that prepare students to write. Good writing assignments …

Posted in Designing Effective Assignments & CoursesTagged advice, General, Suggestions

The Anatomy of a Well-Designed Writing Assignment

Posted on August 10, 2017

Kathleen Daly, Writing Across the Curriculum This sourcebook is full of successful writing assignments from a wide range of disciplines, courses, and pedagogical approaches. However, it’s not always easy to see how you can adapt …

Posted in Designing Effective Assignments & CoursesTagged General

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