Align your assignments, assessments, and classroom space to increase student learning and equity.
We highlight the importance of writing practices to enhance student learning, engagement, and meaning-making during and beyond academic life. We offer support to help faculty understand more about student trajectories and help them shift from a deficit model to a strengths-based model. We also facilitate writing practices that move from a grammar-based understanding of writing to a rhetorical and genre-based understanding of writing across contexts.
In this section, we focus on expanding the conversation into practical teaching resources to support instructors with assignment design, feedback and assessment of writing, and scaffolding and low-stakes writing.
Explore our Resources
Assignment Design
Designing meaningful assignments increases students' ability to transfer writing processes to new contexts and interpret instructor expectations. These resources are designed to help guide you in creating effective assignments in your classroom.
Assessment and Feedback
Writing is recursive and requires reflection and feedback throughout the process. We provide resources designed to support instructors in providing useful feedback to students specifically aligned with assessment of learning.
Writing to Learn
Writing to Learn are low-stakes activities that focus on using writing as a tool to understand, grapple with, and concepts. You can also assign Writing to Learn throughout the writing process to help students prepare for larger assignments. These activities support metacognition and equity -- learn more with these resources and examples.
DEI in Writing Instruction
Within all of our WAC work and courses we actively promote strategies, teaching practices, and learning opportunities that are rooted in antiracist and equitable teaching practices. This is especially important to fulfill our mission as a land-grant serving institution and Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). We recommend exploring these resources to adapt your course to serve students across the curriculum through writing.