Writing and Technology
If you’re a faculty member with questions about how to use writing in your classes (or want advice about handling the paper load), take a cue from your students and look for help online. Your first stop?
The University Writing Center’s website: http://uwc.tamu.edu. There you’ll find not only general advice about writing, but also a wealth of suggestions for successfully incorporating writing into your classroom.
More specifically, if you access uwc.tamu.edu/faculty/ you’ll
discover pages of information aimed specifically at A&M faculty
members, including how to design a W course to meet the new university
requirements. There’s also a section on pedagogy, where you’ll find
perspectives on a wide-variety of classroom issues, such as how to:
d Incorporate more “low-stakes” writing practice, such as journals or mini-essays, into your courses;
d Handle writing in large-enrollment courses;
d Instruct your students to serve as peer reviewers for their classmates; and
d Teach the critical thinking skills that underlie all academic discourse.
Because
grading is such a thorny issue when it comes to writing assignments,
we’ve also included suggestions on how to respond more efficiently and
consistently to your students’ writing:
uwc.tamu.edu/faculty/pedagogy/respond/.
Also on the UWC’s
website are dozens of handouts
