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Enilda Romero-Hall – Distance Learning, 2024
This paper focuses on an intersectional feminism approach to writing assignments in which students served as co-creators of knowledge engaged in the development of an open-access book titled "Motivation in Learning, Training, and Development: A Collection of Essays," while enrolled in the "Principles of Learner Motivation"…
Descriptors: Books, Writing Assignments, Graduate Students, Feminism
Finkenstaedt-Quinn, Solaire A.; Petterson, Michael; Gere, Anne; Shultz, Ginger – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
Writing is a key disciplinary practice in STEM used to construct scientific knowledge and communicate research findings. With its role in the scientific process, writing is often incorporated into STEM classrooms to train students in scientific writing. The importance of incorporating writing in STEM classrooms is heightened by the role it can…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, STEM Education, Introductory Courses, Writing Assignments
Ruder, Phil – Journal of Economic Education, 2021
The author of this article describes individual pre-class and group in-class assignments based on current news articles. Guided student pre-class readings of periodical articles can form the basis for engaging in-class group assignments. Many economics instructors seek to develop student skills at applying the concepts under study to analyze…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Group Activities, Current Events, News Media
McCarter, William; Murphy, Michael – Inquiry, 2016
Plagiarism is an unfortunate but often inevitable byproduct of human discourse. It may have begun with one enviable cave drawing being copied onto another cave wall--without attribution. Ironically, and probably just as inevitably, the modern classroom serves as a kind of breeding ground or incubator for this ancient, murky form of theft. A 2011…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Student Attitudes
Simmons, Nathaniel; Chen, Yea-Wen – Communication Teacher, 2014
Guided by cultural identity theory (CIT), the authors offer the six-word memoir (6WM) as a storytelling vehicle to engage students in critical, reflexive (re)considerations of their cultural identities and positions. This activity's impetus is threefold. First, it recognizes the practical challenges of teaching and learning the important, yet…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Autobiographies, Identification, Culture
Kumar, Rita; Refaei, Brenda – College Teaching, 2013
We used Problem-Based Learning (PBL) as a new pedagogy in an intermediate composition course. Our course design was based in constructivist pedagogical practices, which suggest that knowledge is co-created through social interactions. Although professors have much to offer students, students can also learn important lessons through interactions…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Discourse Communities, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods
Cavdar, Gamze; Doe, Sue – PS: Political Science and Politics, 2012
Traditional writing assignments often fall short in addressing problems in college students' writing as too often these assignments fail to help students develop critical thinking skills and comprehension of course content. This article reports the use of a two-part (staged) writing assignment with postscript as a strategy for improving critical…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Political Science, Critical Thinking, Course Content
Pennock, Andrew – PS: Political Science and Politics, 2011
Traditional writing assignments only teach students to write for academic settings. Assigning students policy briefs and policy memos gives them the opportunity to practice the type of writing they will perform both inside and outside of academia while still developing critical thinking skills and an understanding of the political world. Including…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Political Science, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
Ruswick, Brent J. – History Teacher, 2011
As a new Ph.D. preparing for his first university appointment in June 2006, the author began constructing World History I and II surveys for which his graduate training left him feeling underprepared. Among the myriad challenges, he sought to create a research assignment for general education students that would address a diverse range of…
Descriptors: World History, History Instruction, College Instruction, Introductory Courses
Centellas, Miguel – PS: Political Science and Politics, 2010
This article discusses the use of pop culture in the classroom as a means to teach foundational political science authors and concepts. I focus on my experience using "American Idol" as a point of reference to discuss Marx and Engel's "The Communist Manifesto" and Tocqueville's "Democracy in America" in undergraduate comparative politics courses.…
Descriptors: Political Science, Popular Culture, Philosophy, Undergraduate Students
Morin, Erica A. – History Teacher, 2013
As a graduate instructor for HIST 152: United States Since 1877, the author structures the entire course around the motif of the newspaper. She models her curriculum after the newspaper both visually and symbolically and uses it as a theme throughout the class. The newspaper is not a gimmick or cliche, but rather a recurring stylistic theme, an…
Descriptors: United States History, Course Descriptions, Class Activities, Learning Activities
Melvin, Sean P. – Journal of Legal Studies Education, 2012
A Harvard Business School-style teaching case can be a powerful pedagogical tool to teach law and ethics to business students because instructors can combine a traditional business case study with Socratic-style dialogue and legal analysis from a managerial perspective. This teaching note includes suggestions for several methods of using the case,…
Descriptors: Intellectual Property, Ethics, Decision Making, Federal Legislation
Brockman, Elizabeth; Taylor, Marcy; Kreth, Melinda; Crawford, MaryAnn K. – English Journal, 2011
In the authors' January 2010 "English Journal" article, "Helping Students Cross the Threshold: Implications from a University Writing Assessment," they showcase results of a large-scale writing assessment conducted at Central Michigan University, arguing that some of these results are especially relevant to English teachers…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, College Faculty, Focus Groups, College Preparation
Nelson, Alexis – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2012
Some teaching strategies grow out of the curricula educators inherit or develop through professional reading; others originate in the aromatic humus of their autobiographies. This article presents a proposal that has its origins in the latter. The author recognized that what delights her in prose or poetry is the figurative language a writer uses…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Figurative Language, Basic Writing, Prose
Ford, Julie Dyke; Newmark, Julianne – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2011
This article presents follow-up information to a previous publication regarding ways to increase emphasis on research skills in undergraduate Technical Communication curricula. We detail the ways our undergraduate program highlights research by requiring majors to complete senior thesis projects that culminate in submission to an online…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Technical Writing, Research Skills, Student Projects