What are the foundations of teaching writing across the curriculum? This page offers resources describing foundational practices for teaching writing and provides suggestions for further reading.
Video Resources
- The Foundations of Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum
- Applying Writing to Learn in Your Classroom
- Writing to Communicate
- Teaching Writing as a Process
- How to Help Your Students Do Deeper Content Revisions
- Transparency in Teaching Writing
- What Counts as Writing
- Principles to Apply before Using New Tech
- Backwards Course Design
Print Resources
Assignment Design- Giving Effective Feedback
- Creating a Sustainable Feedback Plan
- The Many Forms of Feedback
- Return on Investment: Four Strategies for Commenting
- Managing the Paper Load
- Dealing With Student Error
- Commenting Strategies
- Providing Feedback to Foster Students’ Transfer of Knowledge
- Using Macros to Comment on Student Papers
- Helping Students Revise
- Designing Peer Review
- Peer Review Across Disciplines
- How to Help Students Give Effective Peer Response
Teaching Activities
Class Activities
The following documents and images are samples of ways to integrate writing into course content across the disciplines. These activities can be short, 10-minute discussions, or they can be expanded into full, class-length exercises. Text in the gray boxes is meant to support how the exercise works.