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 …
In-Class
Making Peer Review Work
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 …
In-Class Discussions of Student Writing: Maximizing the Effectiveness of Your Writing Lessons and Minimizing the Class Time You Use for Them
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 …
Informal Writing Assignments
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 …