What Worked

What Worked

A short time ago, we asked faculty members from our member colleges in the GLCA and GLAA to ponder the year-and-a-half – the “COVID long year” – gone by (and, in many senses, still under way). We asked: Are there things you discovered during last year’s teaching that...

Essay Self-Reflection

Rationale: “[T]eachers should follow up on feedback” in order to “[make] sure that students understand the feedback, [to help] them with revisions strategies after receiving feedback, and [to hold] students accountable through the writing process for responding...

Prewriting for the Restaurant Review Assignment

1. Recall our in-class rhetorical analysis of existing published restaurant reviews. What are the conventions of the restaurant review as a genre? (include in your response considerations of style, tone, content, organization, format, citations, etc.) 2. What...
Essay Structure and Thesis Development

Essay Structure and Thesis Development

Jennifer Franz (Allegheny College) The premise of this module is that all writers – especially multilingual writers – benefit from explicit instruction in the different types of writing that is expected at a college level. There is a strong link between...
Assignment Design and Scaffolding

Assignment Design and Scaffolding

Carla Reyes and Linda Weaver (The College of Wooster) The premise of this module is that writing provides an excellent training ground for entering into an academic community of practice, and that it is this business of writing mentorship that is most successful in...
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