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Writing Links for Students and Teachers
Strategies for Reading Comprehension: Summarizing
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/readquest/strat/summarize.html
Reading Quest details how to teach students to summarize. There are also downloadable forms to use in the classroom.
Paired Summarizing
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/readquest/edis771/pr_sum.html
This page explains how to use paired summarizing to help students work together to elaborate on readings.
Summarizing
http://www.utexas.edu/student/utlc/handouts/1241a.html
The University of Texas Learning Center offers this explanation of summaries and explains how to summarize a paragraph, an article or a complex article.
Reflection
Key Learning Processes: Reflection, Negotiation, and Collaboration
http://www.discover.tased.edu.au/english/key.htm
The first five pages of this excellent article discuss why reflection is important, its role in the classroom, and how to teach students to reflect. The article also contains useful discussion on teaching skills of negotiation and collaboration.
Strategies for Leading Student to Quality Reflective Writing
http://chelsea.k12.mi.us/~dputnam/quality.htm
This site provides a good overview on using reflective writing.
Informal Reflective Writing
http://www.uncg.edu/cac/wac/faculty_resources/ideas_for_the_classroom/jones.html
This site lists guidelines on how to use informal reflective writing activities in the classroom. The author gives suggestions on how to foster critical thinking skills and get students to see writing as a tool for analysis.
Reflection During Writing – Questions to Ask About Your Draft
http://www.ilstu.edu/~seantli/495/reflection.html
This page offers a series of reflective questions to ask while writing a paper.
Student Examples of Written Reflection
http://chelsea.k12.mi.us/~dputnam/examples.htm
This piece gives brief examples of student reflections for various thought processes: comparison, planning, problem solving, evaluating, analyzing, and evaluating.
Reflection Journal Activities Rubric
http://www.catholic-forum.com/catholicteacher/outcomes_rubric_reflection_journal.html
This is a sample rubric for assessing journal writing.
Reflective Writing in History
www.br.cc.va.us/vcca/parre.htm
Anne Parrella's article demonstrates how reflective writing can be used both with higher level students and in social science classes.
Dialectical Journals
Dialectical Journal –Social Issues in the Classroom
http://www.coe.missouri.edu/~eteam/hhtml/dial.html
This sample dialectical journal assignment offers a definition of dialectical journals as well as an explanation of purpose.
Dialectical Journal (form)
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/tdia.htm
This is a sample dialectical journal form for classroom use. This site links to a general journaling page with samples of various types of journal activities.
Journals
Journal Writing Every Day: Teachers Say It Really Works!
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr144.shtml
This article provides rationale, results and writing prompts for using journal writing in any classroom.
Journals in the Classroom
http://7-12educators.about.com/library/weekly/aa083100a.htm
Melissa Kelly gives a good overview of the use of journals in the classroom. Included are discussions of the benefits and potentially negative aspects of journals, student privacy issues, and journal topics.
Using Journals to Improve Student Performance
http://watt.enc.org/online/ENC2205/2205.html
This article encourages high school mathematics educators to initiate journal-writing activities in their mathematics courses as an alternative form of assessment in mathematics classes.
Journaling
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/tjournal.htm
This useful site gives student handouts, definitions and how tos for a variety of journal types including reflective, metacognitive and dialectical. The site also provides teacher and student links for graphic organizers, literature activities and rubrics.
Mathematics Journals
http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~mathed/t/rc/jour/JOURNAL.HTM
An excellent easy-to-navigate site explaining how to implement journal writing in math classes. The site gives information on research addressing teacher concerns, benefits of using writing, when and what to write, how to encourage student writing, the process of responding and evaluating, and possible writing prompts.
Questioning the Author
Questioning the Author
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/readquest/strat/qta.html
Reading Quest gives a useful overview of the Questioning the Author strategy, explains how it works, and provides a sample for practice.
Writing to Learn
Writing for Learning – Not Just for Demonstrating Learning
http://www.ntlf.com/html/lib/bib/writing.htm
Peter Elbow presents the idea of writing to learn as “low stakes writing” that can help students learn, understand, remember and figure out what they don’t know. He discusses rationale and assessment for a variety of writing to learn activities.
Writing to Learn Activities
http://www.mines.edu/Academic/lais/wc/wac/effective/writelearn.html
This site provides simple, clear examples of many writing to learn activities as well as practical ways to grade (or not grade) the writings.
Writing Across the Curriculum
http://www.richmond.edu/~wac/wtl.html
The writing to learn activities posted on this site have been excerpted from Writing Across the Curriculum’s Resource Binder for participating faculty. The activities covered include freewriting, dialectical journals, group writing, exit slips and more.
Reasons to Write in a Content Class
http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/academics/wac/purposes.htm
This site provides sample assignments for several writing purposes: writing to learn, writing to demonstrate knowledge, and writing to improve or maintain writing skills.
Professor Erika Lindemann on “Writing to Learn”
http://www.unc.edu/depts/ctl/fyc4.html
Erika Lindemann, Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Writing Programs at UNC, shares her ideas on how instructors in various disciplines can use writing to help students learn the course materials and understand the concepts of a course. In the interview she defines writing to learn, provides examples of activities, and discusses how to grade writing.
Teaching Tips (What They Didn’t Tell You, or When Common Sense Doesn’t Work)
http://www.gened.arizona.edu/WAC/teaching_tips.htm
The Writing Across the Curriculum program at the University of Arizona offers guidelines and tips for teachers. The site is loaded with ideas to “Write More – Grade Less” and also provides grading shortcuts. Additionally, there are ideas for writing topics and helpful suggestions for supporting student work.
Teaching Strategies for Improving Students’ Communication
http://www.ag.iastate.edu/grants/strategies.html
This site offers tips for incorporating communication activities into your classes to help students learn the course content. The tips and articles cover assignment design, types of assignments, classroom strategies and assessment.
What is Writing to Learn?
http://aw.colostate.edu/reference/wac-faq/pop2d.htm
This site explains writing to learn and offers examples of activities, as well as ways to use computers with the activities. There are also links to other writing to learn sites.
Writing Across the Curriculum
http://712educators.about.com/library/weekly/aa013101a.htm?terms=writing+across+the+curriculum
Diane Walker’s article emphasizes the importance of writing across the curriculum and provides useful links for using rubrics, holistic grading, paragraph writing and essay instruction.
Preparing writing topics
http://712educators.about.com/library/weekly/aa020801a.htm?terms=writing+across+the+curriculum
The second part of Diane Walker’s article explains how to prepare successful writing assignments.
Short Writing-to-learn assignments
http://www.as.wvu.edu/~lbrady/workshop3b4.html
The Wright State guide provides a list of in and out of class writing to learn assignments.
Writing
http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/guide/writing.htm
This site includes hints on designing writing assignments, evaluating writing, and using writing to learn. The pieces are easy-to-read overviews of each topic.
Writing Techniques
http://207.158.243.119/html/techniques.html
This site provides useful descriptions of different types of journal writing, reasons for journaling, tips and links.
Writing to Learn Mathematics
http://watt.enc.org/online/ENC2177/2177.html
L. Diane Millers excellent article explains how she uses writing in mathematics, but her discussion is relevant for all content areas. The piece includes ideas on how writing improves learning, how and why to implement writing, and what to do with the finished assignments.
Writing to Learn Becomes Writing to Assess
http://idea.uml.edu/assessment/kerekes.html
Cristina S. Kerekes discusses how she implemented writing to learn activities in her high school chemistry class.
Grammar and Grading
Tips to Cut Grading Time Required for Writing Assignments
http://7-12educators.about.com/education/7-12educators/blessaytgradetips.htm
The nine alternatives to traditional essay grading presented in this site can help teachers manage the paper load.
Won’t I be buried in paper grading?
http://www.as.wvu.edu/~lbrady/workshop4c.html
When giving writing assignments, use this handy list to help you manage the grading load.
A Method for Grading Essays in Any Course
http://trc.virginia.edu/tc/1996/Method.htm
Candace Caraco presents a writing assessment model of three categories – ideas, argument, mechanics and style – that can be applied to any content area.
Using General Comment Sheets
http://trc.virginia.edu/tc/1995/Comments.htm
Nancy Childress explains how and why using general comments sheets can cut down on the grading load and help students improve their writing.
Paragraphs
http://www2.actden.com/Writ_Den/Tips/paragrap/index.htm
This site gives clear, concise handouts for teaching the parts of a paragraph, how to write a paragraph, and kinds of paragraphs. The links for kinds of paragraphs include useful helper words for students’ to include in their writing.
Writer’s Handbook
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/handbook.html
This excellent site provides instructional materials for academic writing, peer review, documentation styles, grammar and style, and letters and application essays.
Wonderful Writing Skills Unhandbook
http://www.wonderfulwritingskillsunhandbook.com/index.html
This site provides easy-to-ready overviews for everything from rules for punctuation to usage of parts of speech to how to write essays.
Data compiled by Professor Chris Street Department of Education.
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