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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

In-Class Discussions of Student Writing: Maximizing the Effectiveness of Your Writing Lessons and Minimizing the Class Time You Use for Them

Posted on August 20, 2017

  Molly Peeney, Slavic Languages and Literature Using student writing samples as the basis of your in-class discussions about writing is an effective method to teach writing and it saves you time. Why? You can …

Posted in Coaching Students to Succeed with AssignmentsTagged Discussion, In-Class, Slavic Languages and Literature

Informal Writing Assignments

Posted on August 10, 2017

  Brad Hughes, Martin Nystrand, Paige Byam, and Tom Curtis, English The assignments below are generally short, informal, perhaps ungraded writing assignments that instructors might consider adapting to their classes. Students often appreciate the opportunity …

Posted in Designing Effective Assignments & CoursesTagged In-Class, Informal, Low Stakes, Ungraded

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