The general tipsheet discusses ways that faculty and departments can get started on integrating writing and oral communication activities into the disciplines.

This tipsheet outlines effective approaches to responding to student writing.

This tipsheet suggests ways to incorporate peer review of writing into disciplinary classrooms.

This tipsheet describes what grading or evaluation rubrics are and how to use them. It then offers printable examples of rubrics for various writing, speaking, and teamwork situations in various disciplines.

This tipsheet suggests ways that faculty in the disciplines can use writing in their classes without seriously over-burdening themselves with responding to and grading papers.

This tipsheet suggests alternatives to the typical reseach paper assignments that are used in many courses. The tipsheet describes both informal and formal writing activities that can be integrated into a range of courses.

This tipsheet suggests practical and effective strategies that disciplinary instructors can use to help students improve their grammar and mechanics.

This tipsheet suggests instructional approaches that help plagiarism from becoming a problem in disciplinary classrooms.

The WAC Clearinghouse and the University of Delaware Writing Center offer the following tipsheets for faculty development as a general resource for anyone doing workshops or seeking good advice to distribute to college faculty. They advance both writing to learn and writing in the disciplines approaches. The tipsheets were created through the Writing in the Disciplines initiative at the University of Delaware for training faculty. We have tried to cull the best advice to faculty from many sites and organize it topically for easy use. Each tipsheet points to websites and printed materials that inform the sheet or that represent the best places to go for further information. We intend for these tipsheets to be easily printed and freely shared. The links are to Word files, so if you want to use the tipsheets, you can open and edit the file, customizing the information to your own situation. If you do customize a tipsheet, we would appreciate your leaving intact the footer with the icons and names of UD and the Clearinghouse. You are free to use the document header to include your local information. The tipsheets reside on the UD server and will be updated and added to over time. If you would like to create and contribute a tipsheet to this collection, we can send you the template file. Send an email with suggestions to Steve Bernhardt: sab@udel.edu

This tipsheet suggests ways to structure and respond to student writing so as to encourage deep revision. The tipsheet also suggests to students to help them see ways to revise their work.

This tipsheet suggests ways to break up assignments into a series of related planning, researching, and writing tasks. Strategies for sequencing and scaffolding assignments encourage teachers to plan interventions while work is underway.

This tipsheet shows how reflective writing can reinforce teaching goals in service learning courses. Suggested assignments range from low-stakes, exploratory writing to high-stakes formal assignments.

Developed for service-learning courses in the the sciences and engineering, this tipsheet provides reflective writing tasks designed for specific points in the semester as well as generalized prompts that can be assigned any time.