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Writing Workshops in First Year Seminars
Submitted by Christine Adam on Mon, 2008-10-06 14:42.If you want some support in communicating with students about your expectations for their writing, and you want to encourage students to try working with writing tutors at the writing centre, consider booking a writing workshop for your class.
Writing and Genre
Submitted by Briony Taylor on Mon, 2008-09-29 22:17."True research papers are more than a loose collection of anecdotal memories or a patchwork of data pulled from several books. But while new to most first-year students, a research paper can be incredibly exciting, rewarding, and even comforting to write... Research papers come in all shapes, sizes, forms, and disciplines..."
A deeper discussion of genre is continued at the OWL at Purdue:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/ResearchW/genre.html
A deeper discussion of genre is continued at the OWL at Purdue:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/ResearchW/genre.html
Working with writers' learning styles
Submitted by Briony Taylor on Wed, 2008-09-24 10:39.This Writing Lab newsletter focuses mainly on developing writing skills. It offers students different strategies that can be used in the writing process depending on their learning styles.
http://writinglabnewsletter.org/archives/v27/27.8.pdf
http://writinglabnewsletter.org/archives/v27/27.8.pdf
Article on Students' Response to Plagiarism Detection Software
Submitted by Christine Adam on Thu, 2007-08-09 07:42.This article in Active Learning in Higher Education has just come out:
Responding to Student Papers Efficiently and Effectively
Submitted by Sean Lennox on Tue, 2007-07-31 12:47.The following link will bring you to an article developed by Writing Services at the University of Toronto. The purpose of this article is to give instructors some ideas on developing and then marking written assignments.
Peer Feedback on Written Work
Submitted by Sean Lennox on Mon, 2007-07-30 10:02.This article was written by Library Services at the University of Calgary. See more of the U of Calgary article by downloading the attachment, improving-writing-through-peer-review.pdf
What is Peer Review?
Library Services: Research Process and Assignments
Submitted by Sean Lennox on Mon, 2007-07-16 15:11.Situating Student Writers
Submitted by Christine Adam on Thu, 2006-08-17 17:48.This website outlines some interesting observations about first-year students and their perceptions about writing. It also suggests some in-class writing activities:
