William Banks outlines "Daybooks" usage in the classroom. He speaks to his own experimentation with them, along with challenging his Children's Literature students to do the same as a semester long project.
Writing to Learn is an approach to writing being used in the classroom. This Prezi offers the why, what, and how, behind Writing to Learn.
WTL ActivitiesThis handout can allow students an opportunity to look at their work objectively, and see an oppositional view, which can help their writing become well rounded.A dialogic journal can help students shape their ideas by acting as an outline for their thought process.These exit slips can provide an instructor with insight into what their students are taking away from a class period, and what concerns their students might have regarding the material.Fishbone is an in-class activity that can provide students a chance to hash out their ideas with themselves, and then compare with a partner.The Gallery Walk exercise gives students a chance to ask questions they have on a given process, and are then able to see how their classmates respond. This handout provides instructions on how to set up the in-class activity.This exercise can help students develop writing skills with "looping," which keeps writing on topic. "Cubing" allows the student to better understand their topic through connections and analysis.This handout can help a student plan out the how, when, and where of completing they're given assignment.This in-class activity can help students better understand a concept by using word affiliation. Students are also able to hear other student responses that can help give well-rounded insight on a topic.This handout provides instructions on how to complete an in-class exercise that will help students better anticipate the direction their paper will need to move in from beginning to end
This Prezi outlines APA formatting.This handout outlines MLA formatting.
CRAFT & MMAPs are two acronyms for the concepts students should consider when working on a writing assignment.
Questions to Ask
This handout details four strategies that can be used to better understand the conventions of writing.
Sachiyo Shearman outlines a step-by-step methodology for gaining student agency in the research paper writing process. She outlines her own methods for teaching the steps and the positive impact it had on her students overall performance.
This handout outlines the components of a business letter, and what should be contained within each.This handout outlines the different aspects of tone to be used in a business correspondence.
This document goes in depth to the writing and construction of a grant proposal.This handout outlines the components of a grant proposal, touching on both short and long term goals.Simon Peyton Jones and Alan Bundy outline what they believe to be necessary components of a strong grant proposal.
This handout outlines the necessary components of crafting a personal statement including the "dos" and "don'ts" of writing a personal statement.This Prezi helps guide applicants writing a personal statement in the field of health science by covering audience, voice, form, and purpose.This handout provides ten tips to applicants writing a personal letter for medical school.This handout provides ten tips to applicants writing a personal letter for law school.
This presentation covers aspects of composing Emails in a professional environment.
Using Email on the Job - Examples
Guiseppe Getto outlines the aspects of creating a curriculum vitae, and what needs to placed into a successful one.This handout offers tips on how to construct a cover letter, and details some of the necessary components of a strong cover letter.This handout provides tips for the aesthetic construction of a resume, being primarily concerned with layout versus content.
This link outlines tips and practices for writing in the music discipline, and covers the three types of writing that will be taking place: summary, critical responses, and research papers.This link offers insight into writing for art history, with considerations for the art discussed, they type of paper being written, and formatting.This link provides tips for writing a history paper. Aspects to be aware of include writing inpast tense, using active voice, and Chicago formatting.This link provides useful tools for writing in Journalism such as the inverted pyramid for writing construction, and the paramedic method for staying in the style of journalism.This handout outlines the types of writing in kinesiology, such as medical notes and lab reports.This handout outlines the different parts of a mathematics paper, such as the abstract, focus question, and the appendix.This handout outlines how to write a paper for the political sciences, being sure to use APA format, supporting the thesis, and having positive repetition.
This handout acts as a rubric for creating a rubric, outlining what makes for a strong and weak rubric.This Prezi helps to develop rubrics by having students assist in the rubrics creation.
This Prezi can help students better understand what type of writing is valued in their field of study.This link provides multiple examples of dynamic criteria mapping.This activity provides participants with different ideas and concepts from others in their field by using the "Gallery Walk" activityThis link provides multiple examples of exit slips to be used at the end of a class session.This handout provides the metaphor of an upside down mountain, and how that can be applied to understanding knowledge.This handout outlines how to identify threshold concepts in a course, and how they can be presented in a way that doesn't isolate individual students who might be confused.This link provides multiple in-class exercises that can be used to gain insight into student understanding.This handout introduces the idea threshold concepts as a foundation for conceptual change of prior understanding, whether that prior understanding be differentiated, coalesced, or defined.This article discusses the application of knowledge transfer in the classroom, covering aspects like deciding what to teach, how to present the information, and what to have students complete on their own.This link provides two tools for setting up a "Gallery Walk" activity for your classroom.This activity attempts to explain the concept of knowledge transfer through a metaphorical image.This link provides multiple tools for outlining a concept.This image attempts to explain how knowledge transfer works as a triangle.This link provides tow tools for developing knowledge from a source.
Glynis Cousin introduces the idea of threshold concepts, and how they can be better applied to a curriculum in place of an "overstuffed" one.This handout provides key terms for understanding knowledge transfer, such as genre, prior knowledge, and threshold concepts.This handout provides four steps for identifying a threshold concept.This PowerPoint presents some of the ideas behind threshold concepts, and their relationship to curriculum design.This PowerPoint introduces the idea of threshold concepts, and how troublesome knowledge can impact the overall threshold concepts.This PowerPoint introduces the idea of threshold concepts, and discusses some of the pedagogical theory concerned with it.This handout discusses how knowledge transfer can be applied in the classroom, starting with gauging prior knowledge to what students must do on their own.This handout outlines the idea of knowledge transfer, and how it can be applied in the classroom. The types of transfer, and how prior knowledge can affect said transfer.