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Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom
Bean, John C.
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1996
From the Publisher
A practical nuts and bolts guide for teachers from any discipline who want to design interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities and incorporate them into their courses in a way that encourages inquiry, exploration, discussion and debate.

•	Active Learning

•	Teaching Writing

•	Critical Thinking

Writing to Learn: Strategies for Assigning and Responding to Writing Across the Disciplines
Sorcinelli, Mary Deane and Peter Elbow
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1997
From the Publisher
This volume provides instructors who teach writing with an array of strategies and philosophies about the way writing is learned, both in the context of a discipline and as an independent skill. Focusing primarily on the best ways to give feedback about written work, the authors describe a host of alternatives that have a solid foundation in research. This is the 69th issue of the journal New Directions for Teaching and Learning.

•	Teaching Writing

•	Grading

"The Personal Connection: Journal Writing Across the Curriculum"
Fulwiler, Toby
in Language Connections: Writing and Readings Across the Curriculum (Urbana, IL: National Council of Tearchers of English), 15-31
1982

•	Teaching Writing

"Beyond "Good" and "Awk": Paper Comments That Challenge Students to Think, Rethink, and Revise"
Cozzens, Christine
Center for Writing and Speaking, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA

•	Teaching Writing

Facilitating Students' Collaborative Writing
Speck, Bruce W.
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2002
From the Publisher
Collaboration is interwoven in the writing process in both obvious and subtle ways--from a writer using the language that he or she inherited, to referring to the works of other writers both explicitly and implicitly, to writing together with a colleague. In this book, the author explains that collaborative writing can be a useful pedagogical tool professors can use to help students actively learn about the subject matter and...

•	Collaborative Learning

•	Teaching Writing

"Negotiating the Margins: Some Principles for Responding to Our Students' Writing, Some Strategies for Helping Students Read Our Comments"
Hodges, Elizabeth
in Writing to Learn: Strategies for Assigning and Responding to Writing Across the Disciplines (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997), 77-89
1997

•	Grading

•	Teaching Writing

Risky Writing: Self-Disclosure and Self-Transformation in the Classroom
Berman, Jeffrey
University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, MA
2001
From the Publisher
This is the final volume in a trilogy of works that examine the impact of writing and reading about traumatic subjects. "Diaries to an English Professor" (1994) explores the ways in which undergraduate students use psychoanalytic diaries to probe conflicted issues in their lives. "Surviving Literary Suicide" (1999) investigates how graduate students respond to suicidal literature-novels and poems that portray and sometimes glorify...

•	Diversity

•	Teaching Writing

Writing in Multicultural Settings
Severino, Carol, Juan C. Guerra, and Johnnella E. Butler, eds.
Modern Language Association, New York, NY
1997
From the Publisher
The twenty essays and four responses ("cross-talks") in this volume, the fifth in the Research and Scholarship in Composition series, confront the challenges presented by the racial, ethnic, class, gender, religious, age, and physical-ability differences among today's writing students. The contributors, who teach in classrooms and writing centers at a variety of private and public institutions, discuss their immersion in students'...

•	Diversity

•	Diversified Campus

•	Teaching Writing

Writing Alone and With Others
Schneider, Pat
Oxford University Press, New York, NY
2003
From the Publisher
For more than a quarter of a century, Pat Schneider has helped writers find and liberate their true voices. She has taught all kinds -- the award winning, the struggling, and those who have been silenced by poverty and hardship. Her innovative methods have worked in classrooms from elementary to graduate level, in jail cells and public housing projects, in convents and seminaries, in youth at-risk programs, and with groups of...

•	Faculty Development

•	Teaching Writing

The Seminary Student Writes
Core, Deborah
Chalice Press, St. Louis, MO
2000
From the Publisher
Deborah Core offers practical guidance for beginning seminary students who feel overwhelmed and under-prepared to write the number and quality of papers their courses require.

The book begins with reflections on writing as a sacred action, then addresses such practical matters as choosing and researching a topic; outlining, drafting, and polishing a paper; and using the proper format for footnotes and bibliography....

•	Theological Education

•	Teaching Writing

Learning Through Writing: A Compendium of Assignments and Techniques
Wright, W. Alan, Eileen M. Herteis, Brad Abernethy, editors
Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
2001
From the Publisher
Learning Through Writing is a collection of assignments, techniques, and tips that have proven successful at the university level. These readily transferable activities can be used by university instructors in all disciplines as a resource to help students to improve the quality of their writing, and, ultimately, their learning.

The assignments in this guide aim to develop students' analytical skills, writing skills,...

•	Teaching Writing

Learning Together: Keeping Teachers and Students Actively Involved in Learning by Writing Across the Curriculum: A Sourcebook of Ideas and Writing Exercises
Panitz, Theodore
New Forums Press, Stillwater, OK
2001
From the Publisher
Keeping Teachers and Students Actively Involved by Writing Across the Curriculum -- Writing is an evolutionary process whereby the author revises his/her ideas, values and approaches, not just a mechanical act of placing words in a correct sequence with appropriate grammar. It is intensely personal and interactive with the subject matter, whether in the form of a brief One-Minute Paper at the end of class, a five-minute summary...

•	Teaching Writing

•	Active Learning

Thinking and Writing in College
Walvoord, Barbara E. and Lucille P. McCarthy
National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, Il.
1990
From the Publisher
Offering insights into the effective use of writing to teach students to think like professionals in various fields, this book is the result of a 7-year naturalistic study. The book documents how a writing specialist paired with an experienced professor in another discipline (business, history, psychology, and biology) to study: (1) teachers' expectations about "good" writing and thinking in each discipline; (2) the kinds of...

•	Teaching Writing

•	Critical Thinking

In the Long Run: A Study of Faculty in Three Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Programs
Walvoord, Barbara E., Linda Lawrence Hunt, H. Fil Dowling Jr., Joan D. McMahon
National Council of Teachers of Education, Urbana Il.
1997
From the Publisher
This volume allows both those teachers immersed in WAC programs and those still contemplating increasing the use of writing in their courses to peer into classrooms of those that have participated in such programs for years. Walvoord et al. report the long-term impact upon faculty of writing-across-the-curriculum programs, collecting interviews, questionnaires, classroom observations, student evaluations, and course documents...

•	Teaching Writing

The Writing Teacher's Sourcebook, Fourth Edition
Corbett, Edward P.J., Nancy Myers, and Gary Tate
Oxford University Press, New York
2000
From the Publisher
Now in its fourth edition, this widely acclaimed sourcebook remains one of the most up-to-date and inclusive works on teaching writing today. In this edition, the editors have added twelve new essays and deleted several from the previous edition, making the content as timely as possible. Emphasizing the importance of adapting good pedagogy to multiple environments and audiences, this unique collection features some of the most...

•	Teaching Writing

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