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A Podcast about Teaching Writing: Ideas and Strategies

In this podcast Roger talks about various ways instructors in all disciplines can help their students write better. Each episode provides new strategies to consider, often drawing upon either the Strategic Guide to Technical Communication or the Concise Guide to Technical Communication.  
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Concise Guide to Technical Communication: Author Interview
Chapter 1: Audience, Purpose,  Genre & Medium
Chapter 2: Ethical Issues in Technical Information
Chapter 3: Researching Technical Information
Over 25,000 listens in two years!
The Talk: How to interview students about academic integrity violations
Academic Integrity, Take 2: How often do students cheat?
Read the blog post
Academic Integrity Online
Academic Integrity in Online Teaching Environments: What do instructors need to know?
Story, Science, and Simplicity
Slides for Story, Science and Simplicity
Link to article in The Conversation: "I study viruses"
Teaching Writing Online
Writing the Teaching Philosophy Statement
Style in Academic Research Articles
Feedback about Feedback
University Affairs article on feedback
Writing Across the Curriculum Quick Guide on Responding to Students
Literature Review on Peer Review
Clear and Concise
Slides for Clear and Concise
The Plain Style
Slides for The Plain or Low Style
Styles of Academic Writing
Slides for Styles of Academic Writing
Stylistic analysis worksheet
Becoming a Productive Writer
Slides for Becoming a Productive Writer
The Rhetoric of Oil
"I paid for an A!" Contract cheating, AI, and strategies for instructors
CBC.CA article on writing and AI
CBC.CA article on students buying essays

Better Writing through AI: Online writing tools
Slides for Better Writing through AI
Helping Graduate Students Write Better
Slides for Helping graduate students write better
Three Things Graduate Supervisors Want to Know
Mastering Academic Writing: An interview with the authors
Beyond words: Visuals in documents
Genre, format and purpose
Purposes for writing in the disciplines
Purposes for writing
Audience and rhetorical situations
Teaching writing today
WRITING ASSIGNMENTS ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES: A CONVERSATION WITH THE EDITORS
That's quite a rhetorical situation you've gotten yourself into!
Further thoughts about audience and workplace writing on LinkedIn.
WRITING ASSESSMENT: A CONVERSATION WITH DR. DAVID SLOMP
WRITE LIKE YOUR ACADEMIC CAREER DEPENDS ON IT
Write like your academic career depends on it: because it does!  PhD in Pharmacy Writing Seminar
Further thoughts on LinkedIn
PHILOSOPHIES OF TEACHING WRITING
GOOD PROMPT, BAD PROMPT: HOW TO CREATE GOOD WRITING ASSIGNMENTS 
Writing effective exam questions
​Further thoughts on LinkedIN
HOW TO RESPOND TO STUDENT WRITING
Responding to student writing (slides)
Responding to student writing: Suggestions from Writing Studies Research
A brief guide to responding to student writing


HELPING GRADUATE STUDENTS WRITE WELL
This episode speaks to faculty members who supervise graduate students: how can you help graduate students develop as writers while also using your time efficiently?
Helping Graduate Students Write Well
Helping Graduate Students Improve Their Writing


REFLECTIVE WRITING FOR ONCOLOGY STUDENTS
This episode talks about reflective writing for students writing in a health care setting. 
HOW TO GET GOOD THESIS STATEMENTS FROM YOUR STUDENTS
In this episode Roger talks about how to get students started off on the right foot when presented with an assignment that asks them to advance an argument. A video for students to watch is here:
https://www.ualberta.ca/centre-for-teaching-and-learning/services/wac/students/videos

Grammar: Should I grade for it?

In this episode Roger talks about how instructors that don't teach writing courses could handle grading for grammar mistakes in student writing. A short review of the research literature on this topic is here:
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https://cloudfront.ualberta.ca/-/media/centre-for-teaching-and-learning/wac/quick-guides/wacgrammaranderrorsinstudentwriting.pdf

Faster and Fairer: Using Rubrics 

In this episode Roger talks about the case for using grading rubrics--sometimes called scoring guides--to help instructors grade student work faster and more consistently. But grading rubrics do more than that: they also help students self-correct their own drafts and they can function as peer review guides. A review of the research is here: 
https://cloudfront.ualberta.ca/-/media/centre-for-teaching-and-learning/wac/quick-guides/wacscoringguidesandrubrics.pdf

Current-traditional, process, and post-process approaches to teaching writing
A PREZI for this episode is available here:
https://sites.ualberta.ca/~graves1/rehabmed_assignments.pdf

A conversation with instructors about writing assignments

10 MinuteAssignment Tune-up
In this episode, Roger talks about a few aspects of any written assignment that instructors might want to revise in order to get better writing from their students. Further resources are here:
https://cloudfront.ualberta.ca/-/media/centre-for-teaching-and-learning/wac/quick-guides/wacformalwritingassignments.pdf
https://sites.ualberta.ca/~graves1/rehabmed_assignments.pdf


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