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Writing & Speaking

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Looking for help teaching in the age of Generative AI? Visit the CTE page on the topic. You'll want to be sure you've let students know your specific policy on AI use in your class. There's also an excellent video about AI  on the Undergraduate Studies YouTube channel that you can share with your students. 

If you want a one-to-one consultation or to organize a professional development event on teaching writing or public speaking, contact us. 

Designing W & C Courses

Planning the writing or speaking components of a W/C course requires beginning with learning outcomes and building up a series of writing/speaking assignments that will achieve them rather than interfere with them. In this section, you'll find information on planning W & C courses that can also be applied to any course that includes writing or public speaking. 

• Case Studies
• Collaborative Assignments
• Creating Effective Writing Assignments: 8 Tips
• Scaffolded Assignments
• Low-Stakes Assignments

Feedback

• More Than Marginal: Giving Your Students Feedback That Matters

• Grade Less: Your Students Might Learn More
• Model Rubrics & Descriptors
• Positive Spin
• Reduce Grading Time
• Rubrics Make the Grade
• Taming the "Stack"

• Effective Peer Response
• A Peer Response Demonstration

• Value Added: Critical Reflection and Self-Assessment

Instruction

Most students benefit from instruction that helps them (1) understand and consider their own composing process; and (2) spend more time on the invention and revision stages of composition. Further, encouraging students to work in stages and get help as they compose discourages plagiarism. This section covers methods of teaching that emphasize the composing process. How Do I Teach This Stuff? is  general overview of teaching W & C courses. 

• Situation Critical: Good Thinking Can Come from Better Writing

• Permission to Use Student Work

• Develop Ethical Codes for Public Speaking
• Speak Up! Help for C Courses
• The Four Corners Debate: An Exercise in Public Speaking

• How Does This Sound? Why Writing Style Matters
• Passive Resistance
• The Power of "Be"
• Preposition Overdose May Cause Wordiness
• This Is Unacceptably Verbose
• The Utilization of Nominatization Contributes to Wordiness

Writing for English Language Learners & Graduate Students

Students who are new to learning English may struggle, especially with academic and professional communication. And even native English speakers need help when they get to graduate-level writing.

Write Away

Write Away is a podcast in which we interviewed faculty about teaching writing.

Workshop Videos

Following are edited versions of faculty workshops on teaching writing and public speaking.

Error & Improvisation, with Dr. Jon Olson
Designing Writing Assignments with Thad Bowerman and Dr. Valerie Balester
Peer Review Workshop with Dr. Stephanie Kerschbaum
Plagiarism Prevention, Part I with Dr. Candace Hastings 
Plagiarism Prevention, Part II with Dr. Valerie Balester
​Supporting International Students at the Graduate Level, With Dr. Tony Silva
Talk It Up: Teaching Public Speaking with Jennifer Jones Barbour
Universal Design for Teaching with Dr. Ann Gundy