Multilingual Writers

Suggested Readings for WR 112: Essays/Articles

We are excited to announce a new pool of articles/essays for use in WR 112 in 2022-2023, replacing the often dated essays in Globalization, our former anthology. WR 112 instructors should choose 9-11 of the more substantive essays from the following list to use as the expository texts that comprise the first 2/3 of the […]

Effective Collaboration with Writing Centers

How can we as faculty make the best use of the Writing Center for our students? This guide offers some suggestions for how to introduce the Writing Center at the beginning of the semester, how to discuss tutoring with individual students before they make an appointment, and how to encourage students to respond critically to […]

Pronoun Reference

Each Flipped Learning Module (FLM) is a set of short videos and online activities that can be used (in whole or in part) to free up class time from content delivery for greater student interaction. At the end of the module, students are asked to fill out a brief survey, in which we adopt the […]

Facilitating Discussions

Each Flipped Learning Module (FLM) is a set of short videos and online activities that can be used (in whole or in part) to free up class time from content delivery for greater student interaction. At the end of the module, students are asked to fill out a brief survey, in which we adopt the […]

Faculty Guide to Teaching WR 111 and WR 112

The following guide is particularly helpful to faculty who are teaching WR 111 or WR 112 for English language learners (ELLs) for the first time. Be sure to also consult the current syllabus templates and to review the basic course descriptions and learning outcomes for WR 111 or WR 112. Both courses need to explicitly […]

WR 112 Portfolio Assignment and Rubric

Use, or adapt, the following to structure a portfolio assignment in WR 112. Objectives To help you document the revision work of your semester, making visible all the steps taken to craft and improve your major writing projects; to track your development as a writer and researcher, asking you to reflect on some of the […]

WR 112: Intercultural Literacy, Race, Racism, and Antiracism

Students, thank you for attending the WR 112 Spring 2021 discussion about race, racism, and antiracism! This page contains a series of follow-up activities for you to continue learning more about and reflecting on these important topics. Objective To be more aware of and take more steps toward intercultural literacy (our WR 112 Hub unit), […]

Teaching with the WR Journal in WR 111 or WR 112

In this activity, students will examine and analyze prize-winning papers written in WR 111 or WR 112 (or the equivalent) and published in the WR Journal. You might consider doing a shorter, more focused version of this activity in WR 111 when introducing key features of the academic essay, and a longer, more expansive, student-driven […]

Suggested Readings for WR 112: Longer Works

Our second-level ELL writing course, WR 112 is taught by over a dozen different instructors, both full-time and part-time, each year. All sections of the course use the same learning outcomes, pedagogical approach, assignment sequence (though instructors should feel free to customize assignments), and core topics for reading, writing, and discussion. The topics for discussion […]