Resources For Teaching with Writing

 

 

Links

 

·          Introduction

·          Prewriting strategies

·          Peer review strategies

·          Workshop schedule

·          Workshop freewriting

·          Workshop writing activity

·          Sample peer review form

 

 

 

 

·          Responding to drafts in progress

·          Tips for helping students with writing research papers

·          Evaluating writing

·          Additional resources

 

 

 

Sample Response Journal     

 

Journal One:  Getting Started on Writing an Assignment Sheet

 

Respond to some or all of the questions below.  Don’t worry about how you interpret the questions, as this is a brainstorming activity.  The purpose of this activity is to generate ideas for a course assignment.  Remember that you need not use this journal activity as a prewriting activity.  Feel free to use any prewriting strategies that work for you or one from the “Prewriting strategies ” handout.

 

1. Think of an assignment you would like to give in your course.  Describe this assignment in a few sentences.

 

2. What do you envision as the purpose of this assignment?

 

3.  How do you think you can make this assignment engaging, an assignment students will want to do?

 

4. What steps do you envision students needing to go through to complete this assignment?

 

5. What resources might students need to do this assignment?  Consider not just print material, but people and non-print media (music, television, the Internet).

 

6. Envision this assignment as being more than an academic exercise, that is, a paper written to be submitted to a professor for a grade.  How can you extend the assignment so it has a wider audience? 

 

 See assignment sheet

 

 

Last revised: 5/20/02

Judy Arzt

jarzt@sjc.edu

 

 

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