Tips for Teaching and Assessing Writing

Regardless of your discipline, there’s a good chance that at some point you will be responsible for teaching or grading writing in some shape or form. Whether they are lab reports, annotated bibliographies, or essays about the application of generally accepted accounting principles to a novel, writing assignments play a major role in many disciplines, particularly with the emergence of initiatives such as Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and Writing in the Disciplines (WID). More...