Writing Teachers Gather Round
Oct. 13th, 2018 08:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I know a lot of my flist is in academia, and
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.
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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 06:59 pm (UTC)Re: Writing with your students
Date: 2018-10-16 11:54 pm (UTC)Our 1101 has a research component, but I just make their final argumentative essay a research essay; they have to have a certain number of scholarly sources to back up their ideas.
1102 is literature based, and also requires at least one essay to be a research essay. What I have done before is have something like what you're talking about. Every student has to find one scholarly article about one of the short stories we're reading; they have to link it on the communal discussion board, they have to provide the correct MLA citation for it, and they have to write a short summary of it. This way, students have a small pool of articles they can go ahead and choose from instead of starting their research from scratch.