Style
Tense Use in Academic Writing
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 […]
Style & Genre
Our Essential Lessons are a sequence of lessons that form the backbone of the Writing Program curriculum, illustrating what we want all students to learn across our program’s diverse course topics. WR 15x asks students to communicate about the same research project in two different genres, offering them the opportunity to explore how “good writing” […]
Sentences Tell Stories: A Principle of Clarity
Our Essential Lessons are a sequence of lessons that form the backbone of the Writing Program curriculum, illustrating what we want all students to learn across our program’s diverse course topics. Readers of English find sentences easier to understand if they begin with a short, concrete subject followed quickly by a specific verb. The clarity […]
Responding to Multilingual Students’ Writing
Challenges facing multilingual writers vary widely and depend on multiple factors–such as the writers’ first language and their prior education–so responding to errors is a complex endeavor. Furthermore, some teachers might be more comfortable than others when diagnosing and discussing more technical aspects of grammar. It should therefore be kept in mind that the advice […]