Most professors would admit that they’ve found themselves frustrated when grading papers. Yes, sometimes those frustrations might stem from students ignoring your clear, strategic, and explicit instructions, but more…
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Leveraging Social and Political Issues to Promote Student Engagement, Improve Writing Skills
June 8, 2018 Jamie L. Butler, MA, and Curtis L. Todd, PhD
“Your students are failing because you are failing them.” These words can cut to the core of any professional educator who strives for excellence in teaching and learning. However,…
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Many students struggle with college-level reading and writing assignments. Part of it is simply not knowing how to get the essentials from a text. I have been experimenting with…
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Blogging can be a tool that aids learning. “Blogs provide students with an opportunity to ‘learn by doing’ to make meaning through interaction with the online environment.” (p. 398)…
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Establishing a Writing Community in the College Classroom
March 28, 2016 Cassandra O'Sullivan Sachar, EdD
When I hear the words “writing community,” my mind conjures up an elementary school classroom. I picture the warm, fuzzy second grade teacher wearing a warm, fuzzy sweater, handing…
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Using a Discourse-Community-Knowledge Framework to Design Writing Assignments
August 3, 2015 Angus Woodward
The educational benefits of writing are undeniable. Challenging students to write about our disciplines for diverse purposes and audiences deepens learning and promotes critical thinking. And so we put…
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Humor as a Strategy in Writing Across the Curriculum
January 27, 2014 James R. Keating EdD
We all understand that writing is important and our students should do it well. Even so, many professors feel uncertain when teaching it, especially when their subject area is…
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Three Types of Assignments that Speed Feedback, Boost Student Engagement
November 5, 2013 Kevin Brown, PhD
We often wonder what we can do to help students engage with the material so they can learn it at a deeper level. Students don’t make that an easy…
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A sociology professor in an undergraduate introductory social problems course used a blog to “enhance student participation, engagement and skill building.” (p. 207) In the article referenced below, this…
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Too Many Papers to Grade? Two Solutions
July 12, 2013 John Sturtridge
I mostly teach basic technical writing, and I face the same problem that confronts many of us who teach writing. It’s hard enough getting students to do the assignments,…