Do your students struggle to learn difficult concepts in your courses? Do they often fail to meet your expectations on final writing products? Do they seem to dislike writing in general? Writing-to-learn assignments are short, informal tasks that help students understand course concepts and generate their own ideas for future exploration. Students complete these assignments… Read more »
How Writing Tutorial Services’ New Online Scheduler Can Help Your Students
Did you know that Writing Tutorial Services (WTS) is one of the few writing centers in the country offering subject-specific tutoring? This service allows your students to get tutoring that best matches their needs for your courses and assignments. And did you know that students can now schedule appointments online through the WTS website? Students… Read more »
What is Plagiarism and How Do I Talk with Students about It?
What is plagiarism? “Presenting someone else’s work, including the work of other students, as one’s own” Failure to acknowledge “ideas or materials taken from another source . . . unless the information is common knowledge” (http://studentcode.iu.edu/responsibilities/academic-misconduct.html) How do I talk with students about plagiarism before assignments are due? Provide a clear statement on your syllabus… Read more »
Writing is a Process! Responding to Writing by International and Multilingual Students
We can best support all of our students’ writing development by integrating the writing process into our courses. The writing process consists of several carefully staged steps including brainstorming, drafting, peer review, revision, and editing. Students should be taught multiple strategies for accomplishing each of these steps. The writing process provides lots of opportunities for… Read more »
How Can You Help Your Multilingual Student Writers?
Are you worried about how to grade multilingual student writing fairly? Do you wonder how to hold students accountable for correctness without punishing them based on language difference? Consider the following strategies to make your grading easier and more equitable for all students: Design assignments to take advantage of cultural differences rather than punishing students… Read more »
Help with writing in your courses!
Do you want to use writing in your courses but don’t know where to start? Do you worry about how to grade papers fairly? Does the thought of a stack of ungraded essays wake you up in the middle of the night? I’m here for you! As the new Campus Writing Program Director for CITL,… Read more »