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I know a lot of my flist is in academia, and [personal profile] zulu and I have been talking about teaching and teaching writing specifically, and I decided to host a post about teaching writing.

So, if you teach or have taught writing at any age level, what are some of the strategies you use? Specific assignments? General thoughts about writing instruction?

If you have ever been a student of writing, what are some things your teachers did that worked? Failed abysmally? General thoughts about learning/teaching writing?

Recs for books, essays, or websites also appreciated.

Please feel free to share this around.

I'll put my thoughts in comments rather than the top-level post.

Re: Writing with your students

Date: 2018-10-14 02:34 am (UTC)
zulu: Carson Shaw looking up at Greta Gill (Default)
From: [personal profile] zulu
That's a really good topic. I usually get my students freewriting about the text we're reading at the beginning of class--they hand those short paragraphs in for participation marks, and it does help them to have something to say about the book when we start the discussion. But having it be about writing could be interesting.

Re: Writing with your students

Date: 2018-10-14 06:59 pm (UTC)
zulu: Carson Shaw looking up at Greta Gill (Default)
From: [personal profile] zulu
We mostly do argumentative but I believe there's also a departmental research requirement as well. So that's compare-contrast and evaluative at the same time. (So-and-so said this, other person said that, my point of view is...) I think I'm going to entirely overhaul my research assignment, though. I was having the students do an annotated bibliography for articles they found themselves and...they were finding things, really interesting things even, but stuff that was going way over their heads. I think I'm going to pre-select some non-peer-reviewed articles and then see how they use them in their essays. Time to experiment.

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