Examples of Writing to Learn Activities

Writing to learn activities can happen frequently or infrequently in your class; some can extend over the entire semester; some can be extended to include a wide variety of writing tasks in different formats and to different audiences. Click on the list below to read more about writing to learn activities:

• The reading journal
• Generic and focused summaries
• Annotations
• Response papers
• Synthesis papers
• The discussion starter
• Focusing a discussion
• The learning log
• Analyzing the process
• Problem statement
• Solving real problems
• Pre-test warm-ups
• Using Cases
• Letters
• What counts as a fact?
• Believing and doubting game
• Analysis of events
• Project notebooks
• The writing journal