This Zotero guide was submitted by Dr. Cawa Tran and Dr. Valerie Hohman from the Biology Department. Zotero is a free-to-use open source reference management tool that students can use to collect and store their research and bibliographic sources. Dr. Continue reading
The April 2023 CADW faculty workshop will be held on Thursday, April 27 from 12:15 PM to 2:15 PM in LC 207. Lunch will be served. Using a Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) approach, this workshop combines insights from rhetoric Continue reading
This resource, The Top Twenty Most Common Errors, was developed by the Writing Center at Southeastern and submitted by Dr. Cawa Tran from the University of San Diego’s Biology Department. This document provides examples of the following errors, explaining the Continue reading
This article was submitted by Dr. Sue Lowery from the Biology Department. “Writing to Facilitate Reading” is a short article written by George Gopen. In this article, Gopen illuminates the role that grammatical closure has in aiding readers’ comprehension of Continue reading
“The Creating a Research Space [C.A.R.S.] Model was developed by John Swales based upon his analysis of journal articles representing a variety of discipline-based writing practices. His model attempts to explain and describe the organizational pattern of writing the introduction Continue reading
This in-class assignment was submitted by Dr. Sara Appleton-Knapp from the Department of Psychological Sciences. Dr. Appleton-Knapp’s APA Style Reference Activity is an exercise to help students practice their APA citation skills. In this activity, students must rewrite 12 references Continue reading
This literature review assignment was submitted by Dr. Adriana Vamosiu in the Economics Department, where it is used in the ECON 490: Senior Seminar. This prompt outlines steps Economics students can use to draft an effective literature review. As the Continue reading
The March 2023 CADW faculty workshop will be held on Thursday, March 2 from 12:15 PM to 2:15 PM in LC 207. Lunch will be served. Please visit this shared folder to find materials relevant to the workshop.
“The Science of Scientific Writing,” by George Gopen and Judith Swan, explains some of the best practices writers can use to help readers comprehend scientific writing. The authors acknowledge that while scientific writing can be difficult to read and write, Continue reading
If you would like to dive deeper into writing pedagogy, this list of studies is like the “greatest hits” of influential Composition scholarship. This list (a work in progress) will be organized into categories, with short annotations.
