Now that you may finally have a little bit of time this summer to rework some of your writing assignments, how might you design a series of assignments that your students will find interesting to write and you will find interesting to read?

Summer quarter is an ideal time to look back at your writing assignments and consider how you might tweak them. Here are some tips for how you might make your writing assignments as effective as they can be. (more…)

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Do you have difficulty explaining to a student why s/he earned a particular grade? Are you frustrated by what seems to be a subjective and time-consuming process? How can you grade more efficiently and fairly?компютри

Grading student writing can be a challenging process that may initially appear subjective. However, there are certain strategies that you can implement to make grading writing a more objective and transparent process for both you and your students. Furthermore, you can make grading become as much a form of feedback to students as it is an evaluation of them. Consider the following strategies:

Do your students struggle with citing sources in their writing?

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The other book we’re framing our research with this year is Stephen Fishman and Lucille McCarthy’s Unplayed Tapes: A Personal History of Collaborative Teacher Research (NCTE, 2000). (more…)

“Writing in the Community and the University” was the second in a series of workshops designed to address ways teachers can motivate their students to write through unique and non-traditional methods. Drawing on Activity Theory which points out the disconnect for students between writing in classrooms and writing in the “real world,” our goals for this workshop were

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2) to provide interested teachers with the knowledge and resources to participate in these programs or employ these teaching practices in their own classes.

Though Ohio State connects students to the community through writing in a variety of ways, we chose to feature the following programs and practices: The Service Learning Initiative, the Professional Writing Program, and individual writing assignments.

We were able to record the event and publish it as a podcast. The podcast can be accessed at the end of this post.

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The WAC staff is going to begin writing about the WAC research that informs the work we do, particularly as it is informing the research we’re beginning at Ohio State.

We’re beginning with Chris Thaiss and Terry Myers Zawacki’s recent book Engaged Writers and Dynamic Disciplines: Research on the Academic Writing Life (Boynton/Cook, 2006).
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