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Writing

Working with student writing is a great challenge—from trying to create the assignment to deciding how to tackle the stack of papers that needs grading—nothing is easy. We know that students benefit from assignments that are clear, concise, and which allow for revision. Research shows that most students do not spend time reading the comments that take instructors literally hours to put on papers. The resources below will help you design assignments, save time in marking and grading papers, and just about everything in between. (NOTE: Links will open in a new browser window)

• Teacher Resources: Writing Matters
  Collection of resources from the Manoa Writing Program, University of Hawaii-Manoa that can help with all aspects of the writing process. Especially helpful are:
  • Tips for Teachers of Writing-Intensive Courses
  • Designing the Writing Assignment
  • Handling the Paper Load
  • Grammar: Getting Students to Turn in Edited & Proofread Papers (Downloads as a PDF file )
  • Working with ESL Students’ Writing
    
    
• Writing for Change
  Outstanding resource containing more than 50 writing activities ranging in length from five minutes to over an hour. By Janet Lockhart, M.A.I.S. and Susan M. Shaw, Ph.D for the OSU Difference, Power, and Discrimination Project.
  
  
• Helping Students Write Better in all Courses
  This chapter of Tools for Teaching, by Barbara Gross Davis of the University of California-Berkeley, provides information on a variety of issues related to student writing with specific suggestions for using these ideas in the classroom.
  
  
• Minimizing Writing Apprehension in the Learner-Centered Classroom
  Strategies to help students face and overcome their fear of writing. Has application to all classes in which writing is done. Written by Lavona L. Reeves, this article is from Teaching English, October 1997, pp. 38-45. (Downloads as a PDF file)

 

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