Resource Guide for Teaching Writing Intensive Courses: Quick Start

Dynamic Activities for First-Year Composition by Michal Reznizki (Editor); David Coad (Editor) This collection of activities for the composition classroom includes dozens of practical, useful, successful, and accessible exercises that have been developed and implemented by writing instructors from all over the country. Editors Michal Reznizki and David T. Coad have assembled a collection of tried-and-proven teaching activities to help both novice and experienced teachers plan, prepare, and implement writing instruction in college. As two educators who have been teaching writing in the field for more than a decade, they have created the resource they wished they had.  

Engaging Ideas by John C. Bean; Dan Melzer Use your course's big ideas to accelerate students' growth as writers and critical thinkers The newly revised third edition of Engaging Ideas delivers a step-by-step guide for designing writing assignments and critical thinking activities that engage students with important subject-matter questions. This new edition of the celebrated book (now written by the co-author team of Bean and Melzer) uses leading and current research and theory to help you link active learning pedagogy to your courses' subject matter. You'll learn how to: Design formal and informal writing assignments that guide students toward thinking like experts in your discipline Use time-saving strategies for coaching the writing process and handling the paper load including alternatives to traditional grading such as portfolio assessment and contract grading Help students use self-assessment and peer response to improve their work Develop better ways than the traditional research paper to teach undergraduate reading and research Integrate social media, multimodal genres, and digital technology into the classroom to promote active learning This book demonstrates how writing can easily be integrated with other critical thinking activities such as inquiry discussions, simulation games, classroom debates, and interactive lectures. The reward of this book is watching students come to class better prepared, more vested in the questions your course investigates, more apt to study purposefully, and more likely to submit high-quality work. Perfect for higher education faculty and curriculum designers across all disciplines, Engaging Ideas will also earn a place in the libraries of graduate students in higher education.

The Pocket Instructor: Writing by Amanda Irwin Wilkins (Editor); Keith Shaw (Editor) Fifty easy-to-deploy active learning exercises for teaching academic writing in any field The Pocket Instructor: Writing offers fifty practical exercises for teaching students the core elements of successful academic writing. The exercises--created by faculty from a broad range of disciplines and institutions--are organized along the arc of a writing project, from brainstorming and asking analytical questions to drafting, revising, and sharing work with audiences outside traditional academia. They present students with engaging intellectual challenges to work through together, arriving at generalizable lessons that transfer well across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Students will learn to articulate a thoughtful question, develop a persuasive thesis, analyze complex evidence, and engage responsibly with sources. The Pocket Instructor: Writing offers teachers concrete ideas about how to cultivate habits of radical revision and create a classroom community with an ethos of trust where students learn to give meaningful feedback. Written for both novice and veteran instructors, this essential guide will benefit faculty in any field who hope to improve student writing in their courses. Key features: * Exercises by experienced faculty from a wide range of disciplines and institutions * Step-by-step instructions with instructor insights for each exercise * A "Writing Lexicon" for terms such as motive, thesis, analysis, evidence, and method * Guidance for avoiding plagiarism * Index and cross-references to aid in course planning

Teaching Information Literacy and Writing Studies. Volume 1, First-year composition courses by Grace Veach (Editor) This volume, edited by Grace Veach, explores leading approaches toforegrounding information literacy in first-year college writing courses.Chapters describe cross-disciplinary efforts underway across higher education,as well as innovative approaches of both writing professors and librarians inthe classroom. This seminal work unpacks the disciplinary implications for informationliteracy and writing studies as they encounter one another in theory andpractice, during a time when "fact" or "truth" is less important than fitting a predetermined message. Topics include reading and writingthrough the lens of information literacy, curriculum design, specific writingtasks, transfer, and assessment.

Teaching Information Literacy and Writing Studies. Volume 2, Upper-level and graduate courses by Grace Veach (Editor) This volume, edited by Grace Veach, explores leading approaches to teaching information literacy and writing studies in upper-level and graduate courses. Contributors describe cross-disciplinary and collaborative efforts underway across higher education, during a time when "fact" or "truth" is less important than fitting a predetermined message. Topics include: working with varied student populations, teaching information literacy and writing in upper-level general education and disciplinary courses, specialized approaches for graduate courses, and preparing graduate assistants to teach information literacy.