supporting scholarly exchange about communication across the curriculum
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What kinds of writing can I include? What is writing in the disciplines? Do I have to be an expert in grammar? Do writing and peer review take up too much class time? How can I avoid getting lousy student papers? What makes a good writing assignment? How can I get the most out of peer-review? Why consider collaborative writing assignments? What writing resources are available for my students? What teaching resources are available?
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An Introduction to WAC Teacher Comments: How our three key points will improve student papers
Patrick Fitzhorn, Mechanical Engineering: In my grading of technical papers from students the most common thing I write is WHY? In order to be a terse as possible, they make statements with no backup, no support, no reason to believe that's the case, just to try and get through it as quickly as possible. Dave Alciatore, Mechanical Engineering: I feel very strongly about this too. They never justify things. They don't give the reasons why they arrived at a decision. |
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