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“So What?” Speed Dating: Articulating an Argument’s Significance

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Shannon Mooney Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This activity is intended to help students practice articulating the larger stakes, or the “so what,” of an argumentative or analytical assignment. The activity works best after students have developed complete drafts, and it can be easily adapted for any paper that requires students to present and […]

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Peer Review and the Writer’s Worksheet

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Anthony Edgington Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description There may be no writing classroom activity that garners such intense reactions as peer review. For some, peer review is seen as a positive, enthusiastic experience, one where students gain feedback on their essays that lead to robust revisions and extended development of the student as writer.

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Towards Self-assessing Writing beyond Writing Center Consultations

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Saurabh Anand Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This activity sheet’s idea and its relevance in the writing center consultation mushroomed from my English composition teaching days to my (multilingual) students. In between drafts, I often invited my students to reflect on the writing they produced to intentionally let them self-access to intentionally let them

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Using a Growth Mindset and Revision Plan to Interpret and Apply Instructor Comments

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Roger Powell Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description The purpose of this revision plan assignment is to help students in first-year composition courses effectively process teacher comments on their writing and make a plan to use them to revise their writing. The assignment rests on the notion that if students approach comments on their writing

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Changing Your Mindset About Revision

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L. Lennie Irvin Volume 5 Chapter Description Many freshmen enter college with a one-draft writing process where revision means tidying up errors and then submitting the final product. This chapter is about changing your thinking about revision as a foundation for changing your practice of revision. The chapter explores the false concepts about writing and

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The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly of Peer Review

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Erin E. Kelly Volume 5 Chapter Description Academic writing classes regularly require students to engage in peer review: that is, to read and comment on classmates’ work in progress in an attempt to make that work better. This chapter shows how such class activities connect to the practices of academic peer review associated with academic

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What’s That Supposed to Mean? Using Feedback on Your Writing

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Jillian Grauman Volume 4 Chapter Description Providing feedback to students is one of the most challenging parts of a composition instructor’s job (Caswell; Straub, Practice), and making use of that feedback (whether provided by a professor, tutor, or classmate) is just as challenging for students. While research has shown that students prefer feedback that helps

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