The August 2023 CADW faculty workshop will be held on Tuesday, August 22 from 12:15 PM to 2:15 PM. Lunch will be served. Visit this shared folder for workshop materials. Using a Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) approach, this workshop Continue reading
This in-class peer review activity was submitted by Dr. Sue Lowery in the Biology department for her Biological Oceanography BIOL 451 class. One of the challenges of making peer review a useful activity is getting students to offer detailed, specific, critical Continue reading
“Framing Science” by Matthew C. Nisbet and Chris Mooney is a short article that highlights the importance of the way that scientific ideas are framed. You can read and download a copy of the full article here. Nisbet and Mooney Continue reading
This in-class genre investigation activity was submitted by Professor Alyson Ma from the Economics department. You can find more detailed information about this exercise and download the assignment handouts here. Professor Ma uses this exercise on the first day of Continue reading
This in-class literature review assignment was submitted by Professor Alyson Ma from the Economics department. She uses this assignment in her ECON 497 Senior Seminar course. You can find detailed information about this exercise and download the assignment handout here. Continue reading
This approach to classify different types of writing assignments was provided by Dr. Alyson Ma from the Economics department, and is used in the ECON 497 Senior Seminar course. Through a series of formal and informal assignments, her students have the Continue reading
This article describing the “Writing Spiral” (a collection of writing resources for students), was written by Dr. Traci Guiliano, a Professor of Psychology at Southwestern University. Dr. Guiliano recognized the lack of a widely-accepted resource geared toward helping faculty teach Continue reading
This formal essay prompt was created by Dr. Cawa Tran and Dr. Kate Boersma from the Biology Department. Dr. Tran and Dr. Boersma explain how this assignment from BIOL 490 is meant to give students the opportunity to “practice synthesizing Continue reading
This article was submitted by Dr. Cawa Tran from the Biology Department. You can download a copy of it here. Professor George M. Whitesides Harvard University’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology created a short guide on how to write Continue reading
These handouts were created by Dr. Traci Guiliano, a Professor of Psychology at Southwestern University, and shared with us by Dr. Cawa Tran from the University of San Diego’s Biology Department. The folder of handouts contains 9 different documents that Continue reading
