Handouts for Session l--Assignments and Feedback
Importance of Writing to Employers
- Hart Research Associates, “Raising the Bar: Employers’ Views on College Learning in the Wake of the Economic Downturn,” survey for AACU, 20 January 2010: http://www.aacu.org/leap/documents/2009_EmployerSurvey.pdf
- Steve Graham and Michael Hebert, Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading. A Carnegie Corporation Time to Act Report. Washington, DC: Alliance for Excellent Education, 2010: http://carnegie.org/fileadmin/Media/Publications/WritingToRead_01.pdf
WAC
- “An Introduction to Writing Across the Curriculum,” WAC Clearinghouse, http://wac.colostate.edu/intro/index.cfm
- Cheesy YouTube video, “The WAC Beneath My Wings,” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu3PekGAIto
Assignments (also see links to assignments across the curriculum)
- Bloom’s Taxonomy: Richard C. Overbaugh & Lynn Schultz, Old Dominion University, http://www.odu.edu/educ/roverbau/Bloom/blooms_taxonomy.htm
- “What is Significant Learning?” Dr. L.D. Fink (University of Oklahoma): http://www.med.wright.edu/aa/facdev/tbl/What_Is_Significant_Learning.pdf
- UC Berkeley, “Creating Assignments”: http://gsi.berkeley.edu/teachingguide2009/writing/taxonomy.html
- Example of a video assignment in sociology, “Writing Capstone—Theory Assignment”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFWQElqCZkY
- “Two Ways of Assigning Revision,” John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines, Cornell University, http://www.arts.cornell.edu/Knight_institute/advanced/WIM/wimassigning.htm
- Power of assignments using metaphor: YouTube video, “A Virus Walks into a Bar,” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7DkeQ0roAM
- Colorado State University sample assignments: http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/teaching/wassign/pop2f.cfm
- Example of revised biology assignment , University of Delaware: http://www.english.udel.edu/wc/faculty/newsletters/newsletter_3.1.pdf
- Business communication assignments, University of Massachusetts: http://www.umass.edu/buscomm/assigns.html
Rubrics (also see links to other rubrics)
- “Example of a Grading Rubric for a Term Paper in Any Discipline” (Winona University, adapted from UC, Davis): http://www.winona.edu/air/documents/termpaper.pdf
- “Six Traits for Analyzing Historical Writing” (Montana Historical Society): http://www.winona.edu/air/documents/MontanaHistoricalwriting.pdf
- “Critical Thinking Rubric” (Washington State University): http://academic.pgcc.edu/~wpeirce/MCCCTR/Designingrubricsassessingthinking.html
Feedback
- Summary of Paul Rogers’s research within site for Stanford Study of Writing: http://ssw.stanford.edu/research/paul_rogers.php
- Fruit of Harvard Study on Undergraduate Writing: http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic235511.files/HWP_Bulletin_Responding_to_Student_Writing.pdf
- Laurie Feldman, “4 Days, 40 Papers,” http://chronicle.com/blogPost/4-Days-40-Papers/21324/?sid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en
- YouTube video of Fresno State University freshmen talking about comp teachers’ comments, 'Shit-Plus' 'AWK' 'Frag' 'Huh?' Part 1 of 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LA6nBFkNb8
- “What Is Student Writing Development,” Stanford Study of Writing, http://ssw.stanford.edu/research/paul_rogers.php
- Rebecca Jackson, “Time-Saving Strategies for Evaluating Student Writing,” Texas State University, http://www.liberalarts.txstate.edu/faculty/resources-nominations/timesavingstrategies.html
- “Student Writing: Drafts, Edits, Revisions,” Teaching Guide for Graduate Student Instructors, University of California at Berkeley, http://gsi.berkeley.edu/resources/writing/revisionProcess.html
- Bianca Falbo, “Reading and Commenting on Drafts,” College Writing Program, Lafayette College, http://sites.lafayette.edu/collegewritingprogram/for-faculty/reading-and-commenting-on-drafts/
- “Commenting on Student Papers,” Ohio University, Center for Writing Excellence, Faculty Commons, http://www.faculty-commons.org/cwe/responding/commenting-on-student-papers-2/
- “Writing Comments on Student Papers,” Middlebury College, http://www.middlebury.edu/administration/ctlr/faculty_resources/teaching_resources/writing+comments+on+student+papers.htm
- Laura Brady, “Responding to Writing,” West Virginia University, http://www.as.wvu.edu/~lbrady/response.html
- Jessica Mosher, “Responding to Student Papers,” Word Works, Boise State University Writing Center, http://www.boisestate.edu/wcenter/ww9091.htm
Suggested Reading
- John Bean, “Designing Tasks for Active Thinking and Learning,” from Engaging Ideas, pp. 121-132 & “Coaching the Writing Process and Handling the Paper Load” and “Writing Comments on Students’ Papers,” from Engaging Ideas, pp.217-253.
- “Five Contexts for Writing Assignments,” Chris Thaiss & Terry Zawacki, Engaged Writers and Dynamic Disciplines: Research on the Academic Writing Life (2006), pp. 138-139.
- Richard Haswell, “The Complexities of Responding to Student Writing; or, Looking for Shortcuts via the Road of Excess,” Across the Disciplines 3, http://wac.colostate.edu/atd/articles/haswell2006.cfm.
- Barbara E. Walvoord and Virginia Johnson Anderson, Effective Grading: A Tool for Learning and Assessment (1998), pp. 119-134 (available in the CTE library).
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