Resources for Anyone Assigning Writing

National Student Clearinghouse Research Center

Inclusive Teaching

• University of Michigan Inclusive Teaching site
• University of Michigan Resources for Difficult Dialogues in the Classroom
• Factsheet for Anyone Teaching Students with Dyslexia
• What Can Instructors Do to Support Students with Dyslexia

Writing In and Across the Disciplines

• Adler-Kasner & Wardle, Writing Expertise: A Research-Based Approach to Writing and Learning Across Disciplines (WAC Clearinghouse – full open source pdf)

Designing Writing Assignments

• Six Parts of an Effective Writing Prompt (Debbie Ellis Writing Center, Southwestern University)
• Developing Writing Prompts (University of Connecticut CETL)
• “Best Practices in Assignment Design” (excerpt from John Bean, Engaging Ideas, especially, pp. 96-100)
• Twenty Writing Assignments in Context (Karma Waltonen, Melissa Bender – book description)
• “Writing Assignment and Assessment Design [in Science Courses]” (slide presentation by Shannon Obradovich)

Writing Learning Goals (Beyond Blooms)

• A New Taxonomy of Learning Goals (Elizabeth Barre)
• Beyond Backward Planning (Michael McCreary)
• Fink’s Significant Learning Outcomes (U Buffalo)

Plagiarism/Patchwriting

• The Citation Project
  • Howard, et. al., “Writing From Sources, Writing from Sentences”
  • Jamieson and Howard. “Sentence-Mining: Uncovering the Amount of Reading and Reading Comprehension In College Writers’ Researched Writing”
  • Jamieson. “Reading and Engaging Sources: What Student’s Use of Sources Reveals About Advanced Reading Skills”
  • Howard, “A Plagiarism Pentimento” (paper that establishes ‘patchwriting’ as a concept)
• Price, “Beyond Gotcha!: Situating Plagiarism in Policy and Pedagogy“
• Nelms, “Plagiarism Overview: What the Research on Plagiarism Tells Us”
• Gallant, et. al, “Plagiarism or Not? Investigation of Turnitin®‐detected Similarity Hits in Biology Laboratory Reports”
• Avoiding Plagiarism in Lab Reports (University of Regina)
• How to Recognize the Use of Online Paraphrasing Tools
• Automatic Paraphrasing: A Problem for Academia?
• Paraphrasing Tips and Activities to Teach Paraphrasing

Responding to Student Writing

• Harvard Writing Project Advice
• Harvard Writing Project, “Responding to Student Writing“

Englishes, Home Languages, Vernaculars, and American Academic English(s)

•  Conference on College Composition and Communication, Students’ Right to Their Own Language
• Other People’s English: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American Literacy -Vershawn Ashanti Young, Edward Barrett, Y’Shanda Young Rivera, Kim Brian Lovejoy
• Young, “Should Writer’s Use They Own English?”
• Jay Hardee, “Code Meshing and Code Switching“
• Hutchison and Morris, “Mesh It, Y’all: Promoting Code-Meshing Through Writing Center Workshops” (article) and the supporting website

Teaching Remotely

• Julie Lowndes, “How to Run a Remote Workshop”

Evidence-Based Teaching Resources

• Instructor Guidance – Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative at the University of British Columbia
• Beyond Memorization: Strategies for Long-Term Retention

Student Workload

• Elizabeth Barre, “How Much Should We Assign? Estimating Out of Class Workloads”
• Steve Volk, “Size Matters: How Much Reading to Assign (and other imponderables)”

Gateway to Completion

• The Gardner Institute, Gateways to Completion
  • “An evidence-based plan for improving teaching, learning, and success in historically high-failure rate courses.”

Transparency in Learning and Teaching

• Transparency In Learning And Teaching Project – Transparent Methods

Thinking Routines

• Project Zero Thinking Routines

Tools

• Draftable – compare two versions of a document
• Padlet – digital sticky note board
• Perusall – social annotation tool

Reading Habits/Teaching Reading

• 2022 Adult Reading Habits Survey
• Teaching Students the Rules of Notice
• Noticing Textual Conversations
• Five Key Principles of Effective Reading Instruction

Vocabulary Development

• Tier 2 Vocabulary Development
• CEFR Levels of English
• VocabKitchen Vocab Profiler – assess the complexity of any text
• Text Inspector
• Lexipedia (word/semantic mapping tool)
• Visuwords (visual dictionary)
• Snappy Words (visual dictionary)
• Graph Words (visual dictionary)
• How to Make a Cloze Exercise
• How to Teach with Cloze Exercises
• Frayer Model of Vocabulary Development
  • Filled in Example of a Frayer Model