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bulletWAC & WID
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Integrating Writing Into Your Course

The CWE Digital Dashboard provides links to a variety of resources. Mouse over the icons to the right to view the resource type each represents. MSU CWE Handouts Print Resources (e.g., books, articles) PowerPoint or Other Slide Presentations Wikis PDFs (Adobe Acrobat) Videos Tutorials and Exercises Podcasts Websites

OVERVIEW

Integrating writing into your course can provide huge benefits for your students. In addition to improving their general writing skills, writing in every discipline helps students to gain a deeper understanding of what they are learning. At the same time, writing provides students with the chance to become active participants in the conversations in their field, enhancing both their mastery of the material and their knowledge of discipline-specific terminology, style, and format.

This section provides general resources related to integrating writing into your (non-writing) course, as well as resources related to Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and Writing in the Disciplines (WID) programs.

Cross RefAlso see: Designing Assignments for resources to help you create writing assignments in both writing courses and other disciplines

GENERAL RESOURCES

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Integrating Writing into Any Course: Starting Points
Source: Kate Kiefer, Colorado State University, WAC Clearinghouse
Description: Reprint of an article published in Academic Writing July 25, 2000 that walks one through how to integrate writing successfully into any course so that the writing enhances learning without placing too great a burden on the instructor through increased paper load.
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Teaching Specific Writing Skills
Source: Writing@CSU
Description: A series of the Teaching Guides on Writing@CSU that address how to specific writing skills:
website Integrating Reading and Writing
Source: The Institute for Writing & Rhetoric, Darmouth College
Description: Discusses how to effectively integrate reading and writing into a course so that the learning from one builds on the learning from the other.
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50 Years of Research on Writing: What Have We Learned?
Source: UCTV (University of California Television)
Posted on YouTube: January 31, 2008 | (59:50)
Description: Three of the world's leading scholars in the field of writing instruction and research ( Charles Bazerman Professor of Education UC Santa Barbara,
Peter Elbow, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Massachusetts; and George Hillocks, Professor emeritus of English and Education, University of Chicago) examine the state of knowledge in the field and its relevance to questions about teaching and learning writing at all levels of education Series: "Voices" [11/2006].
video Donald Graves Tells Us How to Get a Writing Class Started
Source: Barrylane55
Posted on YouTube: November 19, 2007 | (1:34)
Official Description: "Author/Teacher Donald Graves has written many books on teaching writing, including the classic book, Writing: Teachers and Chldren at Work (Heinemann). Here tells us how to get a writing class started."
video Donald Graves Talks About Putting Voice in Writing Tests
Source: Barrylane55
Posted on YouTube: November 19, 2007 | (1:34)
Official Description: "Author Donald Graves tells teachers to have their students write with their own voice on writing tests. This short film by Barry Lane captures the central premise of Graves work: let students write in their own voices.
print Straus, Jane. The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation.

This workbook retails for $14.95 and can be a useful resource for students needing help with grammar and punctuation.  It features grammar rules, examples, and a series of quizzes on each area of grammar/punctuation.  This can also be a great resource for tutors.  (Summary and recommendation courtesy of Katie Sudol, Montclair State Department of Early Childhood, Elementary, and Literacy Education)
print Weinstein, Larry. Writing at the threshold : featuring 56 ways to prepare high school and college students to think and write at the college level.  

This book is in circulation at Sprague Library and serves as a great resource to those teaching a writing course at the college level.  Many of the activities in the book can be adapted to fit the needs of writing tutors as well. (Summary and recommendation courtesy of Katie Sudol, Montclair State Department of Early Childhood, Elementary, and Literacy Education)
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30 Ideas for Teaching Writing
National Writing Project (NWP)

"The National Writing Project's 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing offers successful strategies contributed by experienced writing project teachers. Since NWP does not promote a single approach to teaching writing, readers will benefit from a variety of eclectic, classroom-tested techniques."
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WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM (WAC) & WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINES (WID)

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Writing Across the Curriculum: An Introduction
Source: OWL at Purdue
Official Description: "Provides an introduction to writing across the curriculum and writing in the disciplines, a list of links to WAC/WID programs, and a selected bibliography for further reading."
website An Introduction to Writing Across the Curriculum
Source: The WAC Clearinghouse
Description: A down-to-earth list of frequently asked questions about WAC, from "Why include writing in my courses?" to "How can I avoid getting lousy student papers?"
website Writing Across the Curriculum: An Introduction
Source: OWL at Purdue
Official Description: "Provides an introduction to writing across the curriculum and writing in the disciplines, a list of links to WAC/WID programs, and a selected bibliography for further reading."
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Genre Across the Disciplines Part 1
Source: University of Hawai`i at Manoa Center for Teaching Excellence
Posted on YouTube: April 22, 2009 | (10:01)
Official Description: "Oftentimes the genre in which you are trained to write is the genre in which you think. Are students aware of Genre? How do they process disciplinary differences? What affect does this have on their learning? How might genre teaching be improved? Includes: Faculty Panel - Undergraduate Panel - Plenary/Discussion."
NOTE: There are ten 10-minute segments associated with this presentation. All are available on YouTube.
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