Tag: Writing Center

SIP 10.3 You Can Help Students Improve their Grammar

Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? Being distracted by grammar and punctuation errors as you grade papers can be a real downer. Spending 10 minutes carefully marking every error in a student’s paper only to find the same errors in that student’s next paper can be maddening. And dedicating a few minutes of every class …

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SIP 6.11 Teaching Source Documentation

Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? Many faculty mistakenly believe that by the time students get to college, they should know how to cite sources. Or, they may figure that since students in their classes have taken ENG 1020, they already know how to cite sources. Both of these assumptions are faulty and can lead to …

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SIP 3.6 Teaching Writing When You Are Not a Writing Teacher

Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? Regardless of the subject you teach, there may be times when you assign students to write, either as a way to help them learn or as a way for you to evaluate their learning. You may feel like you are in over your head if you aren’t a writing …

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