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Inclusive Science Writing about Socioscientific Issues for Diverse Audiences
Prompt, 2023 In this paper, we present a science writing assignment in which students focus on targeting specific audiences when writing about a socioscientific issue as well as participate in a peer review process.
Nicole C Kelp +3 more
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Prompt, 2021 This article describes and reflects on experiences teaching students to compose a “Writing Process Photo Essay” in the context of an upper-division college writing course that satisfies a campus-wide writing requirement.
Kory Ching
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Motivational and emotional characteristics influence teachers’ reflections on video clips from their own teaching. However, utility values and the role of emotional cost have not been considered yet in video-based research in teacher education.
Mathias Dehne, Alexander Gröschner
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The Students’ Perspective of Using Instagram as a Writing Assignment Platform
J-SHMIC: Journal of English for Academic, 2021 This study aimed to find out the students’ perspective of using Instagram as a writing assignment platform. Using a qualitative research method, this study involved the students of the 2nd semester in English Department Universitas Islam Syekh-Yusuf ...
Tenia Ramalia
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Scaffolding toward Self-Efficacy
Prompt, 2023 This article describes a Pitch Assignment, designed by two journalists turned faculty, to increase support and self-efficacy for writing majors enrolled at a minority-serving institution (MSI).
Jackie Hoermann-Elliott +1 more
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Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2020 Using a combination of online tools (discussion board, submission of reports, grading with rubrics) and scaffolded low stakes writing, we designed a comprehensive writing assignment that teaches first and second year undergraduates a basic scientific ...
Maria Shumskaya +2 more
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Repurposing scientific writing in conservation biology
Prompt, 2020 Scientists and writing studies scholars agree that students need to be able to repurpose scientific knowledge across audiences, goals, and genres. This article offers a much-needed, practical example of an assignment that allows students to work towards ...
Robert Boyd +2 more
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The JSTOR Daily Project: Building Genre Awareness through Heuristic Learning
Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie, 2023 The article describes a publicly oriented writing assignment that can be adapted across disciplinary contexts. The assignment is linked to the JSTOR Daily publication with its tagline “where news meets its scholarly match.” Emulating the style of writing
Sarah Seeley
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Cartographic Composition Across the Curriculum
Prompt, 2022 This article introduces a flexible and adaptable Map Composition assignment to promote cartographic literacy. With applications to composition and writing across the curriculum, this assignment promotes students’ awareness of the rhetorical nature of ...
Joy Santee
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An assignment based on data driven journalism: a case study
Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 2012 In a module designed to develop skills in presenting and evaluating statistics, students of mathematics and statistics were given an assignment asking them to research and write a piece of data driven journalism.
Vanessa Simonite
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