First-Year Writing: Pedagogies, Methods, & Design
On these pages, faculty will find an assortment of resources designed to support their teaching of first-year writing.
Active Learning in the First-Year Writing Classroom
Active Learning teaches students how to learn in collaboration with their peers, creating a community that facilitates learning.
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Syllabus and Assignment Design
Backward design is a useful method for any professor in that it ensures that all assignments, readings, and activities will connect students with the outcomes that the professor deems essential to the course.
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Teaching Writing as Process
Some students arrive in college with strategies for managing all these steps of the writing process; others have habits that have served them in high school but that limit them in college.
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Integrating Reading and Writing
Using writing to enhance our students' reading experiences is perhaps the most common write-to-learn exercise.
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Diagnosing and Responding to Student Writing
A good diagnostician of writing is, first and foremost, a sensitive and attentive reader, capable of reading a text in multiple and complex ways.
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Conducting Writing Workshops
The writing workshop is the heart of the successful writing classroom. In these workshops, instructors use student papers (in part or in whole) as the basis of discussion and instruction.
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Collaborative Learning/Learning with Peers
Educators widely recognize that students do not learn well when they are isolated "receivers" of knowledge.
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Teaching Argument
When developing the courses that we teach, we want to design a course that will inspire our students to sharpen their critical thinking skills.
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Teaching Research
Students entering Dartmouth will need instruction in finding, evaluating, incorporating, and citing sources.
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Addressing Grammar
This page will help professors seeking very practical advice on handling grammatical errors in student writing.
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Useful Links
Both Dartmouth and external links to helpful resources.
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