Teaching Resources for Writing

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The many excellent texts from which we've collected these excerpts adress issues of instruction by discussing specific goals and exercises. The lessons range from assessment to writing projects to teaching strategies.

Modeling the Writing Process: Excerpted from the Instructor's Manual for Good Writing by Mary Meiser, this piece offers many strategies to help students find an approach to writing that fits their personal learning style.
Writing to Bridge Cultures: Excerpted from the Instructor's Manual for The Flexible Writer by Susanna Rich, this piece provides points to consider when asking students to explore the differences between cultures.
Writing Workshop and Peer Review: This excerpt from the Instructor's Manual for The Flexible Writer by Susanna Rich offers guidelines for conducting succesful writing workshops.
Peer Response Workshops: Taken from the Instructor's Resource Manual for The Allyn & Bacon Handbook, Second Edition by Leonard J. Rosen and Laurence Behrens, this excerpt outlines ways to help students "act as readers as well as writers."

Approaches to Teaching Argument: Taken from the Instructor's Manual for Writing and Reading Arguments: A Rhetoric and Reader by Richard P. Batteiger, this excerpt discusses ways of treating argument that move beyond formalism and toward critical thinking.
Developing Critical Thinking Skills in Argument: Excerpted from the Instructor's Manual for Writing and Reading Arguments: A Rhetoric and Reader by Richard P. Batteiger, this piece provides tips for helping students bring critical thinking skills to bear on argumentation.
Argument on the Internet: Taken from Connections: A Guide to On-Line Writing by Daniel Anderson, Bret Benjamin and Bill Paredes-Holt, this piece outlines ways that strategies shift as argumentation takes place on the Internet.
A Strategy for Teaching Toulmin: Ecerpted from The Instructors' Manual for Writing Arguments by John D. Ramage and John C. Bean, this exercise introduces students to the Toulmin method of studying and creating arguments "in a way that makes them see Toulmin's power without intimidating them."

Reflecting on Research: Bruce Ballenger's exercise from the Instructor's Manual for The Curious Researcher explores connections between freewriting and research.
Encouraging Creative Problem Solving Among Students, Part 1: Melissa C. Scott, Melissa I. Smith, and Sandra Taylor relate ways to encourage creative problem solving among students.
Encouraging Creative Problem Solving Among Students, Part 2: Jodi Libretti looks at creative problem solving among sixth grade students.

Alternatives to Traditional Forms of Assessment, Part 1: Taken from Robert E. Slavin's Educational Psychology 4e, this excerpt advocates "a multisensory approach" to presenting and testing for concepts.
Alternatives to Traditional Forms of Assessment, Part 2: In this excerpt from Robert E. Slavin's Educational Psychology 4e, Elonda Hogue discusses portfolios and first grade students.