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Lowry Pei's Materials on Teaching Writing
Overview
Dear Colleagues,
I have developed these materials over a long period of time, for use in writing courses and in faculty development workshops. They are posted here in the hope that they will be useful for faculty in general, as you use writing in the teaching of your discipline.
I intend to add to these materials from time to time, especially if faculty make specific requests.
The contents fall into overlapping categories, so certain materials appear in more than one list below. These items are PDF's; if you would like to request them as Word documents, just e-mail me (pei@simmons.edu).
Lowry Pei
Some documents on this page are in a print ready PDF format that you can download and print. Please note that you will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in to view and print these files.
The Big Picture
- Overview of a Writing Course
- Eleven Things You Could Start Doing Today
- Writing Process and Teaching Process
- Characteristics of Novice Writers
- Teaching Writing That's Reflective
- Conventions of Academic Papers
- Uses of Informal Writing
Creating Writing Assignments
- Creating Writing Assignments
- Crucial Verb in an Assignment
- Teaching Writing That's Reflective
- Reflecting on Writing Assignments
Commenting On Student Writing
Evaluating Writing
- Criteria for Grading Writing
- Commenting on Student Papers, esp. the section "Some Questions to Ask about Student Papers," pp. 4-6.
- Grids for Evaluating Writing
Working With Student Writing In The Classroom
- Classroom Work on Student Writing
- Ways to Critique Writing
- Peer Review of Student Writing
- Believing & Doubting
- An ESL Student's View
- What Constitutes a Thesis (by Geoff Turner)
Grammar & Correctness
- What Is Grammar?
- Research on Teaching Grammar
- Proofreading & Copy-Editing
- Checklist of Common Errors (by David Gullette)
- Punctuate Me!
This information was last updated in October 2007.