Many teachers, departments, writing centers, and faculty lounges have a file drawer full of workable assignments. These are often used to help new colleagues, inspire those who want to try new approaches, and "save" those who don't have time or inclination to reinvent the wheel.
The WAC Clearinghouse Teaching Exchange provides a space for sharing such resources for teachers who use writing—formal or informal, discipline specific or transdisciplinary—as part of their classes. Please feel free to browse through these offerings, which are categorized by purpose. We hope you find something educational, provocative,
informative, and useful. And we hope you'll
recommend additional resources to include in the Exchange.
— Justin Jory
Teaching Exchange Editor
Category: Faculty Tip Sheets
The WAC Clearinghouse and the University of Delaware 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. 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.
Contributor: Stephen A. Bernhardt, Dee Baer, and Dorry Ross, University of Delaware
Email: sab@udel.edu
Phone: 302-831-3069
Home Page: http://sites.udel.edu/sab/
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.
Contributor: Stephen A. Bernhardt, University of Delaware
Email: sab@udel.edu
Phone: 302-831-3069
Home Page: http://sites.udel.edu/sab/
The general tipsheet discusses ways that faculty and departments can get started on integrating writing and oral communication activities into the disciplines.
Contributor: Steve Bernhardt, University of Delaware
Email: sab@udel.edu
Phone: 302-831-3069
Home Page: http://sites.udel.edu/sab/
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.
Contributor: Stephen A. Bernhardt, University of Delaware
Email: sab@udel.edu
Phone: 302-831-3069
Home Page: http://sites.udel.edu/sab/
This tipsheet suggests practical and effective strategies that disciplinary instructors can use to help students improve their grammar and mechanics.
Contributor: Stephen A. Bernhardt, University of Delaware
Email: sab@udel.edu
Phone: 302-831-3069
Home Page: http://sites.udel.edu/sab/
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.
Contributor: Stephen A. Bernhardt, University of Delaware
Email: sab@udel.edu
Phone: 302-831-3069
Home Page: http://sites.udel.edu/sab/
Drawing on the tenets of Problem-Based Learning, this tipsheet offers insights into developing assignments that go beyond the typical brief papers and term papers. For more on Problem-Based Learning, see PBL@UD: http://www.udel.edu/inst/
Contributor: Stephen A. Bernhardt, University of Delaware
Email: sab@udel.edu
Phone: 302-831-3069
Home Page: http://sites.udel.edu/sab/; http://www.udel.edu/inst/
This tipsheet suggests ways to incorporate peer review of writing into disciplinary classrooms.
Contributor: Stephen A. Bernhardt, University of Delaware
Email: sab@udel.edu
Phone: 302-831-3069
Home Page: http://sites.udel.edu/sab/
This tipsheet suggests instructional approaches that help plagiarism from becoming a problem in disciplinary classrooms.
Contributor: Stephen A. Bernhardt, University of Delaware
Email: sab@udel.edu
Phone: 302-831-3069
Home Page: http://sites.udel.edu/sab/
This tipsheet outlines effective approaches to responding to student writing.
Contributor: Stephen A. Bernhardt, University of Delaware
Email: sab@udel.edu
Phone: 302-831-3069
Home Page: http://sites.udel.edu/sab/
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.
Contributor: Stephen A. Bernhardt, University of Delaware
Email: sab@udel.edu
Phone: 302-831-3069
Home Page: http://sites.udel.edu/sab/
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.
Contributor: Dorry Ross and Steve Bernhardt, University of Delaware
Email: sab@udel.edu
Phone: 302-831-3039
Home Page: http://sites.udel.edu/sab/
Strategies for Facilitating Student Self-Review
This tip sheet provides practical methods for helping students self-review their own papers before engaging in peer review.
Contributor: Steven Corbett, Southern Connecticut State University
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.
Contributor: Steve Bernhardt, Dorry Ross, and Dee Baer, University of Delaware
Email: sab@udel.edu
Phone: 302-831-3069
Home Page: http://sites.udel.edu/sab/
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.
Contributor: Dorry Ross and Steve Bernhardt, University of Delaware Writing Center
Email: sab@udel.edu
Home Page: http://sites.udel.edu/sab/
This tipsheet addresses the use of writing in high-enrollment classes.
Contributor: Stephen A. Bernhardt, University of Delaware
Email: sab@udel.edu
Phone: 302-831-3069
Home Page: http://labwrite.ncsu.edu/
This tipsheet offers insights into writing a wide range of business reports. John is a business professor at UD who promotes strong writing and communication skills through his teaching.
Contributor: John Sawyer, School of Business and Economics, UD and Dorry Ross, UD, University of Delaware
Email: sab@udel.edu
Phone: 302-831-3069
Home Page: http://labwrite.ncsu.edu/
This tipsheet offers insights into helping students write effective lab reports. The tips reflect the work of an NSF-funded project, LabWrite, directed by Mike Carter. See http://labwrite.ncsu.edu/
Contributor: Mike Carter, NCSU, University of Delaware
Email: sab@udel.edu
Phone: 302-831-3069
Home Page: http://sites.udel.edu/sab/
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