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Trisha Kelly Travers – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation explored how effectively first-year writing (FYW) evaluated and selected sources for their researched writing assignments. Though students were taught how to access sources from the library and offered sources on the course management system, most often they obtained sources via the open internet. As mis- and disinformation…
Descriptors: Misinformation, Writing Assignments, Information Sources, Learning Processes
Wood, Suzanne – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2020
In the later years of undergraduate study, students read, process, and evaluate primary literature within specific fields of study. Shifting from textbooks to the vast amounts of peer-reviewed current literature can be difficult for students. This article details an innovative approach to helping students successfully make this transition through…
Descriptors: Sequential Approach, Writing Assignments, Writing Instruction, Critical Thinking
Philippakos, Zoi A. – Reading Teacher, 2018
Proficient writers spend substantial time planning for writing, and that planning begins with analyzing the writing task. They spend time considering the topic, the audience and its needs, and the genre and form of the writing. This rhetorical analysis helps them set goals, orient their attention, and get organized. Task analysis can also help…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Writing Assignments, Writing Processes, Writing Skills
Meghan A. Sweeney; Maureen McBride – College Composition and Communication, 2015
Using Mariolina Salvatori's "difficulty paper" assignment to explore student experiences when reading, this paper examines basic writing students' difficulties with reading in the composition classroom. The authors argue that examining difficulty can provide an entry point for understanding how students experience the (dis)connections…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Reading Writing Relationship, Student Experience, Reading Assignments
Bacabac, Florence Elizabeth – CEA Forum, 2019
Since writing in the disciplines (WID) is focused on learning how to write formal documents of a professional register, it is important to note that each field or discipline has its own style, structure, and format when it comes to writing, and most composition courses seldom facilitate the transfer of these specialized skills in the classroom.…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Critical Thinking, Writing Instruction, Students
Kraemer, Don J. – Journal of Basic Writing, 2017
This article uses Zak Lancaster's 2016 discovery that academics do not actually write the way "They Say/I Say" says they do to reflect on relations between, on the one hand, facts about academic writing and, on the other, the pedagogical values that underlie and guide those facts--or, put another way, to reflect on how values we may…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Writing Instruction, Academic Discourse, Remedial Instruction
Cohen, Avi J.; Williams, Andrea L. – Journal of Economic Education, 2019
Despite widely acknowledged benefits of integrating writing into economics courses, instructors' costs are often prohibitive. To reduce costs and make writing assignments more feasible, the authors describe multi-part, scaffolded writing assignments developed by an economist and a WAC (Writing Across the Curriculum) specialist, integrated into an…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Peer Evaluation, Introductory Courses
Belk, John – Composition Forum, 2018
This profile describes how the Writing Program at Southern Utah University enacts a rhetorical humanist framework in its administrative and curricular structures. At the administrative level, rhetorical humanism offers a collaborative governance model that gives all faculty a voice in programmatic decisions, while managing the cacophony created by…
Descriptors: Humanism, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Decision Making
Curry, John H.; Cook, Jonene – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2014
For novice and experienced instructors alike, facilitating online discussions can seem like a daunting prospect. Many ask themselves how to do so in an effective and meaningful way that actually adds to the course experience rather than seeming like mere busywork. The MANIC discussion strategy is one that promotes deeper student interaction with…
Descriptors: Facilitators (Individuals), Guidance, Computer Mediated Communication, Group Discussion
Fike, Matthew A. – CEA Forum, 2007
This article reports on a challenging and effective assignment on thinking in a discipline that the author gave during fall 2006 in his sophomore-level "Critical Reading, Thinking, and Writing" (CRTW) course at Winthrop University. Required of all students, the course follows Writing 101: Composition; and a multi-disciplinary course…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Critical Thinking, Assignments, Critical Reading

Polette, Keith – English Journal, 1995
Suggests that students can improve their writing by being instructed on how to write badly. Applies the criteria of testability, tunnel-vision, excessive vagueness, flying in the face of established fact, and hazy authority to tabloid newspaper stories. Discusses how students can write their own "rotten" tabloid stories by taking these…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Critical Reading, Secondary Education, Writing Assignments

Blythe, Hal; Sweet, Charlie – Eureka Studies In Teaching Short Fiction, 2001
Outlines effective and practical creative writing assignments given to literature students. Concludes that writing short, imaginative summaries provides a change of pace from the usual lecture, discussion, and group work formats of literature classes. (PM)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Critical Reading, English Instruction, Higher Education

Blythe, Hal; Sweet, Charlie – Eureka Studies In Teaching Short Fiction, 2001
Details a creative writing assignment used in literature classes to help students better grasp the principles of literature from the inside out. Suggests this method should be employed more often in survey classes. (PM)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Critical Reading, English Instruction, Higher Education
McComiskey, Bruce – 1995
Recent discussions of teaching composition in the context of cultural studies have begun to consider the condition of the writing subject in society, yet these discussions construct student-writer S(s)ubject(ivitie)s at the poles of modernist-identity and postmodern-difference binary opposition that is politically problematic. The identity of the…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Cultural Awareness, Discourse Communities, Higher Education

Boyle, Priscilla K. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2000
Describes a modified method of reader-response used as a core activity in a literature classroom in which students write a short written response at the beginning of every class to the reading due that day. Describes the procedure, its relationship to effective writing, and its benefits, including reading more critically, writing more effectively,…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Motivation
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