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Promoting Student Success: What would YOU do? A Quiz

 

  2. Your course has a writing component and you wish to use it to improve the writing skills of your students. You:
    • a. Include inyour syllabusa detailed assignmentfor the one major term paper due as the semester ends.
    • b. Assign a lengthy term paper with a mid-term draft due.You routinely comment on the draft,return itfor revision, and refer students, as necessary, to the Writing Lab.
    • c. Assign in detail papers of increasing length and complexity over the course of the semester. You encourage peer editing,distribute theWriting Lab Brochure, and invite a Writing Lab staffmember to talk tothe class.
    • d. Assign one or two papers that will be revised three or four times in response to your comments and peer editing.You provide samples of what you consider good student writing, andyou encouragestudents tousethe Writing Lab. 

      DISCUSSION

      Best teaching practices recommend that students be given the opportunity to learn with frequent feedback from faculty and peers and chances to build upon their learning.  It is always helpful if students can see samples of good student writing as well as use the support of the Writing Lab in improving their writing skills.  A combination of choices “C” and “D” would follow the best practices for improving students’ writing skills. 


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