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  • John C. Bean, Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Learning, Table of Contents and Chapter 1:"Using Writing to Promote Thinking: A Busy Professor's Guide to the Whole Book," San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. 1996. NOTE: This is a wonderful book. Available at Falvey: PE1401.B35, 1996 and at VITAL. 19 Pages, PDF file.
     
  • Richard H. Haswell, "Minimal Marking," College English, 45, No.6, (1983), 165-170. A terrific time saver and effective pedagogical technique for eliminating punctuation and grammar mistakes. 5 Pages, PDF file.
     
  • C. Williams Griffin, "Final Synthesis: But What Do I Do Tomorrow?" New Directions for Teaching and Learning: Teaching Writing in All the Disciplines, Ed. C.W. Griffin. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1982, 83-86. Available at Falvey: PE1404.N456T42, 1982. This article responds to many common questions professors in the disciplines have about teaching writing--excellent. 3 Pages, PDF file.
     
  • Joyce MacAllister, "Responding to Student Writing," New Directions for Teaching and Learning: Teaching Writing in All the Disciplines, Ed. C.W. Griffin. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1982. Available at Falvey: PE1404.N456T42, 1982. Many practical and efficient suggestions for coaching writing through paper comments. 4 Pages, PDF file.
     
  • "Seventeen Suggestions for Making and Presenting Writing Assignments" 1 Page, PDF file
     
  • Toby Fulwiler, "Responding to Texts: Provocative Revision" in St. Martin's Sourcebook for Writing Tutors. St. Martin's Press, 1995. Excellent ideas for guiding student revision. 7 pages, PDF file.
     
  • Steve Tchudi and Joanne Yates, "A Primer on Teaching Writing in the Content Areas," in Teaching Writing in the Content Areas, Washington, D.C.: National Education Assn., 1983. The authors provide the basics and beyond for teaching writing in the disciplines; covers everything from Audience to e-Zines. 8 pages, PDF file.
     
  • Paula Gillespie, "E-Journals: Writing to Learn in the Literature Classroom," in Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum, Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1998. Useful information on "electronic journals" which work well in any class where primary source reading is an important component, not just "literature classes." 5 pages, PDF file.
     
  • Lynn Quitman Troyka, "The Impossible and The Possible: Realistic Goals for Courses in Writing," in Quick Access. Prentice Hall, 2001. Available at Falvey: PE1408 .T6964 2001. The author lists 18 teaching outcomes for courses requiring a lot of writing--excellent and attainable goals for course planning. 2 pages, PDF files.
     
  • Lynn Quitman Troyka, "Using a Handbook: Why and How," in Quick Access. Prentice Hall, 2001. Available at Falvey: PE1408 .T6964 2001. Although these ideas refer to Troyka's handbook, Quick Access, they work well with Diane Hacker's Writers Reference, the required handbook at VU. 4 pages, PDF file.