University Writing

For assistance in making your course more writing intensive, we recommend this annotated bibliography of writing across the disciplines.

All documents are in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format

Writing Process

• Ways to Help Students Generate Ideas for a Paper
• Drafting and Organizing
• Teaching Students to Write with a Purpose and a Thesis
• The Essay Thesis Generator
• Tips for Avoiding Burnout

  Writing to Learn

• Ideas for Short Writing-to-Learn Assignments
• Tips for Setting up Successful Journals
• Writing to Learn with Journals

  Designing Writing Assignments

• Composing Essay Questions
• Designing a Writing Assignment

  Peer Review

• Preparing Students for Meaningful Peer Review
• Writing Workshop
• An Inventory of Challenging Feedback

  Correctness and Style

• Auntie Beth's Grammar Song Book
• Making Sentences Easy to Read and Understand
• Mythical Rules for Writing

  Document Design

• Essentials of Good Document Design
• Kinds of Typefaces

  Evaluation of Papers

• Evaluation
• Grade Norming Guidelines
• Grading
• Guidelines for Writing Effective Commentary
• Teach Through Your Comments

  Genre-specific Considerations

• How to Teach Students to Write a Book Review
• How to Teach Students to Write a Case Analysis
• How to Teach Students to Write a Review of Literature
• How to Teach Students to Write an Abstract

  Oral Presentations

• Oral Presentation Evaluation
• Oral Presentation Evaluation 2
• Oral Presentations

  Teaching Writing in Large Classes

• Strategies for Assigning Formal, Graded Writing in Large Classes

  Student-Teacher Writing Conferences

• Student-Teacher Writing Conferences (Purpose, Patterns, and Tips)