
What are the foundations of teaching with writing? This page offers some information about foundational practices for teaching with writing and provides suggestions for further reading.
Please, check back frequently as this site is currently in development.
Foundations of Teaching (with) Writing
- Assignment Design
- Low-stakes Writing
- Research Writing
- Supporting Developing Writers
- Providing Effective and Efficient Feedback
- Supporting the Transfer of Student Writing Knowledge
- Teaching Writing Online
Videos about Teaching Activities
- Read Around Groups
- The One Minute Paper
- The Sticky Note Exercise
- Reverse Course Design
- Commenting Strategies
Supporting Multilingual Writers
- Video Series
- Resources from the Stearns Center
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.
Campus Resources
- George Mason Review (A publication for undergraduate researchers)
- The George Mason Writing Center
- Mason Libraries’ Student Tutorial on Research