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2025 Newsletters
January
Creating Prompts & Rubrics That Guide our Students in Writing
February
Use Short Writing Tasks to Motivate Students to Write the Final Paper
March
Why Should I Require Students to Go to the FHSS Writing Lab?
2024 Newsletters
January
Moving Students to a Research Topic & Guiding Them to a Thesis Claim
March
Use Peer Review to Improve Student Papers Before You Grade Them
April
Grading Student Writing
September
Students need our help to gain content knowledge, skills, ability to read, write, listen, speak, and think critically in our disciplines
October
Students need to learn that critical reading is the means to create meaning – not simply find it!
November
Supporting Students With Writing Assignments in Our Disciplines
December
How Can I Improve My Feedback on Student Papers?
2023 Newsletters
January
Use Formal Writing Assignments to Facilitate Students’ Entry into Your Discipline
February
Improving Formal Writing Before It Needs to be Graded
March
Use Formal Writing Assignments to Move Students from Reading Critically to Critical Analysis to the Creation of New Insights
April
Responding to Student Writing
September
Redesign Writing Prompts to Improve Student Writing
October
Help Students Improve Their Writing by Using Rubrics and by Providing Annotated Example Student Papers
November
Tools to help students improve their papers and reduce grading time: Paragraph structure, Synthesis, and Wordiness
December
Reconsider the Way We Evaluate Student Papers
2022 Newsletters
January
Increase the Value of Your Writing Assignments: Create Research Support Teams
February
Low-Stakes Writing Helps Students Improve Writing & Thinking
March
Assessing Students’ Progress on their Major Course Paper (Without Spending Hours on Grading)
April
Deepen/ Solidify Student Learning Using Reflection
September
Engaging Students in Course Material Through Informal Writing
October
Help Students Deepen Their Learning Through Informal Writing Tasks
November
Use Informal Writing to Help Students Learn & Retain Course Material, Connect Ideas, and Create New Ideas
December
Informal Writing Can Help Students Review & Prepare for the Final Exam
2021 Newsletters
January
Avoid Grading Papers with Global Problems: Offer Feedback Throughout the Writing Task
February
Avoid Grading Papers with Global Problems: Offer Feedback Throughout the Writing Task
March
Students Need Our Help Understanding Plagiarism
April
Time to Grade Papers – Again!
September
Explicitly Teach the Genres of Your Discipline
October
Explicitly Teach Critical Reading in Your Discipline
November
Explicitly Teach Critical Thinking in Your Discipline
December
Changing the Focus for Grading Final Papers
2020 Newsletters
January
Help Students Transition from First-Year Writing to Writing in Your Discipline
February
Academic Discourse Community
March
Analysis & Synthesis
April
Preparing to Evaluate Student Papers
September
Tired of Grading Poor Papers? Improving Student Writing
October
Tired of Grading Poor Papers? Using Peer Review
November
Tired of Grading Poor Papers? Help Students Understand How to Revise
December
More Strategies for Commenting on Student Papers
2019 Newsletters
February
Understanding and Creating Academic Discourse May be Difficult for Students: How Can We Help?
March
Understanding and Creating Academic Discourse May be Difficult for Students: How Can We Help?
April
Provide Appropriate Feedback
September
Students Have Taken Several Classes That Require Writing: Why Can't They Write?
October
Teach Critical Reading Skills to Help Students Improve Writing
November
What are Your Expectations for Student Writing?
December
Do Your Comments Correlate with Your Prompt?
2018 Newsletters
January
How Can I Include Student Writing Without Being Overwhelmed? Assign Student Writing that Supports Your Purposes
February
Why Should I Teach Writing: It is NOT My Job
March
Help Students Avoid Procrastinating and Binge-Writing
September
I Do Not Have Time to Teach Students How to Write!
October
Help Move Student Writing from “Reporting” to “Contributing”
November
Use Writing to Help Students Learn
December
Understanding and Creating Academic Discourse May be Difficult for Students: How Can We Help?
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