Designing Writing Assignments

Author : Traci Gardner
Publisher : National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte)
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131795002

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Designing Writing Assignments by Traci Gardner Pdf

Effective student writing begins with well-designed classroom assignments. In Designing Writing Assignments, veteran educator Traci Gardner offers practical ways for teachers to develop assignments that will allow students to express their creativity and grow as writers and thinkers while still addressing the many demands of resource-stretched classrooms.

Author : Jim Burke
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 0325050945

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The Six Academic Writing Assignments by Jim Burke Pdf

Writing assignments are road maps-or they should be. They guide the writer on a journey. They lay out a process, envision a destination. They are designed. As Jim Burke explains it: "What we are really doing when we create a year's worth of writing assignments, of experiences, is designing a story. Each day's class a sentence, each week a paragraph, each unit a chapter in the story of the year students spend in our classes. And as with any good story, there needs to be tension and transformation by the time one arrives at the end, or what I have called 'the user's journey.'" These maps are crucially important for engaging students with academic writing, which is often unfamiliar territory. Drawing on his extensive review of academic writing assignments across the country, Jim identifies six major categories of writing assignments that help students become better writers, readers, and thinkers: - Writing to learn - Short answer - Writing on demand - Process paper (which goes through multiple drafts) - Research paper/report - Alternate forms (multimedia presentations, etc.). For each assignment type, Jim invites us into his own practice. He shows how he composes the assignment, how he creates gateway activities to help prepare students, how he troubleshoots common problems, how he gives response, how he clarifies the criteria on which students will be judged. He also shows how these assignments are related-how the earlier assignments build to later more complex ones So please join a master teacher at work. Take this journey with him.

Author : Sebastian Meindl
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783640798438

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Designing Effective Writing Prompts for English by Sebastian Meindl Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, grade: 1.7, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale - English Department), course: English Composition Pedagogy and Practice, language: English, abstract: A teacher has to create a work-friendly environment that engages students to participate in and become a part of the classroom activities. Since I have had some teaching experience, I know that this is the most daunting task the teacher is confronted with. Furthermore, this is a task the teacher has to fulfill every day anew. No lesson is the same, and today your class can be totally different than the day before. Students’ attitude and participation in the classroom can fall from astonishing to frustrating within moments. To be aware of the classroom vibe is most crucial to teaching success. Standing in front of the classroom, the teacher has to be able to adapt to the students’ condition, to engage with them and to arouse their interest; in short, the teacher has to be aware of his or her audience. As a teacher, you need to be able to open a communicative channel that allows you to convey your message adequately and at the same time reach your students. Both speaker and recipient have to feel comfortable with the channel and must be interested to keep this channel open. When this communicative approach becomes one-sided, the teaching will fail; either the teacher will not be able to perform in a comfortable way, or the students might not be willing to receive. This can be avoided if both sides cooperate with each other by “make[ing] your conversational contribution such as is required, at the stage at which it occurs, by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged“ (Grice 24). Grice talks about five maxims of conversation that need to be respected to provide a fertile ground for conversation.

Author : Scott Kubie
Publisher : Book Apart
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1937557782

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Writing for Designers by Scott Kubie Pdf

From product documentation to menu labels to marketing emails, writing for the web can feel challenging-even insurmountable. But it doesn't have to be that way! Whether you're new to writing or looking to hone your skills, Scott Kubie's guide will empower you to get organized and get going. Learn to scope and articulate writing assignments, build a repeatable workflow, and develop methods for productive editing, collaboration, version control, and delivery. Don't struggle with writing-get the writing done.

Author : Michele Eodice,Anne Ellen Geller,Neal Lerner
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781607325802

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The Meaningful Writing Project by Michele Eodice,Anne Ellen Geller,Neal Lerner Pdf

In the face of the continuing discourse of crisis in US education, The Meaningful Writing Project offers readers an affirming story of writing in higher education that shares students’ experiences in their own voices. In presenting the results of a three-year study consisting of surveys and interviews of university seniors and their faculty across three diverse institutions, authors Michele Eodice, Anne Ellen Geller, and Neal Lerner consider students’ perceptions of their meaningful writing experiences, the qualities of those experiences, and instructors’ perspectives on assignment design and delivery. This study confirms that meaningful assignments offer students opportunities to engage with instructors, peers, and texts and are relevant to past experiences and passions as well as to future aspirations and identities. Meaningful writing occurs across majors, in both required and elective courses, and beyond students’ years at college. Additionally, the study makes clear that faculty across the curriculum devote significant care and attention to creating writing assignments that support student learning, as they understand writing performance to be a developmental process connected to overall cognitive and social development, student engagement with learning, and success in a wide variety of disciplines and professions. The Meaningful Writing Project provides writing center directors, WPAs, other composition scholars, and all faculty interested in teaching and learning with writing an unprecedented look into the writing projects students find meaningful.

Author : William Zinsser
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780062244697

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Writing to Learn by William Zinsser Pdf

This is an essential book for everyone who wants to write clearly about any subject and use writing as a means of learning.

Author : Beth L. Hewett,Tiffany Bourelle,Scott Warnock
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603295475

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Teaching Writing in the Twenty-First Century by Beth L. Hewett,Tiffany Bourelle,Scott Warnock Pdf

Teaching Writing in the Twenty-First Century is a comprehensive introduction to writing instruction in an increasingly digital world. It provides both a theoretical background and detailed practical guidance to writing instructors faced with novel and ever-changing digital learning technologies, new approaches to access needs and usability design, increasing student diversity, and the multiliteracies of reading, alphabetic writing, and multimodal composition. A companion volume, Administering Writing Programs in the Twenty-First Century, considers the role of administrators in addressing these issues. Covering all aspects of teaching online, various composition genres, and the technologies available to teachers, Teaching Writing in the Twenty-First Century addresses composing processes and approaches; designing and scaffolding assignments; providing response, feedback, and evaluation; communicating effectively; and supporting students. These strategic and practical ideas are prefaced by a history of the relation between composition and rhetoric and a guide to diversity, inclusion, and access. The volume ends with a chapter on envisioning the future of composition.

Author : John C. Bean
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781118062333

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Engaging Ideas by John C. Bean Pdf

Learn to design interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities and incorporate them into your courses in a way that encourages inquiry, exploration, discussion, and debate, with Engaging Ideas, a practical nuts-and-bolts guide for teachers from any discipline. Integrating critical thinking with writing-across-the-curriculum approaches, the book shows how teachers from any discipline can incorporate these activities into their courses. This edition features new material dealing with genre and discourse community theory, quantitative/scientific literacy, blended and online learning, and other current issues.

Author : Phyllis Kahaney,Judith Liu
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 0472067869

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Contested Terrain by Phyllis Kahaney,Judith Liu Pdf

A challenge to the way we think about writing on university campuses

Author : Grant P. Wiggins,Jay McTighe
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781416600350

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Understanding by Design by Grant P. Wiggins,Jay McTighe Pdf

What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high-stakes, standards-based environment? Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of Understanding by Design. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why the familiar coverage- and activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning. With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested approaches, this new edition of Understanding by Design offers teacher-designers a clear path to the creation of curriculum that ensures better learning and a more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike.

Author : Katherine Gottschalk,Keith Hjortshoj
Publisher : Bedford/St. Martin's
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0312406835

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The Elements of Teaching Writing by Katherine Gottschalk,Keith Hjortshoj Pdf

Drawing on their extensive experience training instructors in all disciplines to incorporate writing in their courses, Gottschalk and Hjortshoj provide time-saving strategies and practical guidance in this brief, well-written reference. Accommodating a wide range of teaching styles and class sizes, Elements offers reliable advice about how to design effective writing assignments and how to respond to and evaluate student writing in any course.

Author : Anna J. Small Roseboro
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475842814

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More about Writing by Anna J. Small Roseboro Pdf

This book suggests ways to teach different modes of writing.

Author : Charles Lowe,Pavel Zemliansky
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781602358317

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Writing Spaces 1 by Charles Lowe,Pavel Zemliansky Pdf

Volumes in Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing offer multiple perspectives on a wide-range of topics about writing, much like the model made famous by Wendy Bishop’s “The Subject Is . . .” series. In each chapter, authors present their unique views, insights, and strategies for writing by addressing the undergraduate reader directly. Drawing on their own experiences, these teachers-as-writers invite students to join in the larger conversation about developing nearly every aspect of craft of writing. Consequently, each essay functions as a standalone text that can easily complement other selected readings in writing or writing-intensive courses across the disciplines at any level. Topics in Volume 1 of the series include academic writing, how to interpret writing assignments, motives for writing, rhetorical analysis, revision, invention, writing centers, argumentation, narrative, reflective writing, Wikipedia, patchwriting, collaboration, and genres.

Author : Liz Hamp-Lyons
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015025279574

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Assessing Second Language Writing in Academic Contexts by Liz Hamp-Lyons Pdf

This is the first volume to focus on the assessment of second language writing. The collection as a whole provides coverage of all issues in second language writing assessment, starting from the context in which and for which assessment must occur, moving through the aspects of decision-making and design in a writing assessment program, and then considering how the need to evaluate any program on assessment can be carried out. After a discussion of issues of public reporting, an area which will receive increasing attention in the next few years, the volume closes with a discussion of what new issues and answers the future may bring. The book reflects the current belief in direct writing assessment in second language writing assessment. While it is often expected that those working with ESL students will focus on language error, throughout the book themes of needs, attitudes, ideas and content dominate. For second language writers the use of written language to learn, to create knowledge and to share ideas and beliefs are vitally important. Additionally, issues of cross-cultural academic literacy, practical information on criteria and scoring models for use with ESL writers, and research on the efficacy and effects of various assessment models are provided. The book blends theory and practice in a way which offers all those who are concerned with the writing skills of nonnative users of English an invaluable resource.

Author : Toni-Lee Capossela
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Education
ISBN : UCSC:32106015964924

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The Critical Writing Workshop by Toni-Lee Capossela Pdf