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Why Learning to Write Well in College Is Difficult

Posted on July 11, 2017

  Bill Cerbin, Assistant to the Provost, UW-La Crosse Terry Beck, Department of English, UW-La Crosse The following list is not, of course, meant to rationalize sub-par writing by college students. Nor can one course …

Posted in Foundations for Teaching with WritingTagged foundations, learning, teaching, writing

Explaining to Students Why They Should Write in Your Course

Posted on July 12, 2017

  Dr. Michelle Harris Dr. Janet Batzli Biocore Why Write? The Biology Core Curriculum (Biocore) is a four semester, laboratory-intensive, writing-intensive intercollege honors program. Each fall, approximately 160 students enter the sequence through Biocore 301/302. …

Posted in Foundations for Teaching with WritingTagged biocore, foundations, learning, teaching, writing

National Council of Teachers of English: Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing

Posted on July 12, 2017

  Approved in February 2016, this revised statement replaces the NCTE Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing (November 2004), now sunsetted. http://www.ncte.org/positions/statements/teaching-writing A subcommittee of the NCTE Executive Committee wrote the NCTE Beliefs about the Teaching …

Posted in Foundations for Teaching with WritingTagged foundations, teaching, writing

Sequencing Assignments Over the Course of a Semester

Posted on July 12, 2017

Rebecca Schoenike Nowacek Brad Hughes Writing Across the Curriculum When sequencing or deciding on the order of your assignments for the semester, you may want to ask yourself two questions. First, what do you want …

Posted in Sequencing Assignments in Your CourseTagged advice, designing, sequencing, writing

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