Writing Pedagogy Resource Packs
These resource packs provide curated, microdoses of teaching resources. Covering a variety of pressing topics related to teaching and learning, each pack provides 3-5 diverse resources to learn about and address the issue at hand (from podcasts to gold standard research, from video presentations to example handouts). These packs are not meant to be exhaustive in scope, but rather small bites that can get you going or to supplement your current understanding. To suggest a new resource pack or to contribute materials, please contact the WAC+WID Coordinator at pbonczyk@uci.edu.
Promoting Effective Reading with the Jigsaw Method
This resource pack was created by Gina Ruggiero (Global Languages and Communication). If you would like to discuss the topics in this resource pack with her, you can send her an email.Simply put, the Jigsaw Method is a cooperative learning reading technique that...
Teaching Signposting
Much like a signppost on a trail indicates which direction a hiker ought to go, signposting can be a helpful tool for writers to use to communicate to their reader where they have been and where they are going. Signposts are phrases that indicate sequence,...
Multimodal Writing Assignments
Multimodality is the use of multiple modes to make and communicate meaning. These modes migh be written, oral, digital/technological, kinetic, or visual. Composing multimodally requires an awareness of the relationships between modes and discipline, audience,...
Writing-to-Learn Prompts
Writing-to-Learn prompts are prompts that gives students a low-stakes opportunity to think through their ideas in writing. While when we are writing to communicate, we are writing for others, writing-to-learn writing is meant only for ourselves as the writer and...
Supporting the Anxious Student Writer
Writing anxiety, also known as "writer's block" or "writing resistance," is a response to the specific situation of writing. Though this response can illicit physical and emotional reactions, writing anxiety is not a mental health or psychological condition. This...
Generative AI and Writing Course Policies
While the advent of widespread Al tools is alluring for students, faculty, and industry experts alike, its increased efficiency and speed bring with it additional challenges to university writing instruction that still values careful documentation of sources,...
Teaching Revision
Revision is a complex, iterative process where a writer makes “significant development of a text’s ideas, structure, and/or design” (Downs 66). Unlike editing, which involves fixing sentence-level concerns to “clean up” a piece of writing, revising can get really...
Peer Response
Peer response — often referred to as peer review, feedback, or writing workshops — provides students a scaffolded opportunity to read, receive, and provide holistic feedback on their writing at any point in the writing process.Peer response activities can help...