A Podcast about Teaching Writing: Ideas and Strategies
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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.
Please share the podcast link (https://rogergraves.podomatic.com/) widely and be sure to let us know if there are topics you would like to see covered in future episodes. Concise Guide to Technical Communication: Author Interview
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The Talk: How to interview students about academic integrity violations
Academic Integrity, Take 2: How often do students cheat?
Academic Integrity Online
Supporting Students After an Academic Integrity Infraction
Story, Science, and Simplicity
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
Writing Across the Curriculum Quick Guide on Responding to Students
Literature Review on Peer Review
Clear and Concise
The Plain Style
Slides for The Plain or Low Style
Styles of Academic Writing
Becoming a Productive Writer
The Rhetoric of Oil
"I paid for an A!" Contract cheating, AI, and strategies for instructors
Better Writing through AI: Online writing tools
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
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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
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PHILOSOPHIES OF TEACHING WRITING
GOOD PROMPT, BAD PROMPT: HOW TO CREATE GOOD WRITING ASSIGNMENTS
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
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
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
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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?
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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:
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
https://cloudfront.ualberta.ca/-/media/centre-for-teaching-and-learning/wac/quick-guides/wacscoringguidesandrubrics.pdf
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Current-traditional, process, and post-process approaches to teaching writing
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A PREZI for this episode is available here:
https://sites.ualberta.ca/~graves1/rehabmed_assignments.pdf |
A conversation with instructors about writing assignments
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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 |