Teaching Writing: Ideas and Strategies

How can we assess the writing of our students in ways that are valid, reliable, and fair? In this 30 minute conversation with Dr. David Slomp, Associate Professor of Education at the University of Lethbridge and co-editor in chief of the journal, Assessing Writing, you'll find out how to create assessments that satisfy all three of these criteria.

Writing academic articles well and quickly determines how successful you will be as an academic. This episode discusses three key features of articles: introductions, citations, and visuals.

In this episode I discuss some ideas that writing instructors--and any instructor who teaches their students to write better--might include in their teaching philosophy statements. Topics include positions on grammar and language accuracy; grading criteria; and feedback on writing.

Writing studies research shows that the way we ask for student writing is an important factor affecting the quality of that writing. In this episode, I review how to create prompts that will get you the writing you want to read.

Why do you teach the way you do? A Teaching Philosophy Statement answers this questions. In this episode, Dr. Cosette Lemelin joins Roger Graves to talk about the challenges involved in writing one of these documents. We present a number of strategies for writing a great statement.

How can you respond to student writing while protecting your time and energy? In this episode I talk about some of the basic principles of responding well and suggest strategies for ensuring students get response that they can use.

This episode provides ideas and advice for supervisors who work with graduate students as they write a variety of documents from research articles to dissertations.

This podcast talks about how to write the reflection part of the patient journey assignment for Oncology 254 students.

One key way students go wrong when writing occurs when they cannot articulate the argument they are trying to make. This podcast talks about ways you can direct them to write an arguable thesis statement.

For instructors who are not teaching a writing course, how much emphasis should they put on grammar and usage. This podcast looks at the research on teaching grammar, the social implications of penalizing non-standard English, and suggests strategies for instructors to follow.