Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the ClassroomLearn to design interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities and incorporate them into your courses in a way that encourages inquiry, exploration, discussion, and debate, with Engaging Ideas, a practical nuts-and-bolts guide for teachers from any discipline. Integrating critical thinking with writing-across-the-curriculum approaches, the book shows how teachers from any discipline can incorporate these activities into their courses. This edition features new material dealing with genre and discourse community theory, quantitative/scientific literacy, blended and online learning, and other current issues. |
Contents
Understanding Connections Between | |
Helping Writers Think Rhetorically | |
Using a Range of Genres to Extend Critical Thinking and Deepen | |
Dealing with Issues of Grammar and Correctness | |
Keeping an Eye on Our Goals | |
Formal Writing Assignments | |
Informal Exploratory Writing Activities | |
Helping Students Read Difficult Texts | |
Using Small Groups to Coach Thinking and Teach Disciplinary | |
Bringing More Critical Thinking into Lectures and Discussions | |
Enhancing Learning and Critical Thinking in Essay Exams | |
Designing and Sequencing Assignments to Teach Undergraduate | |
Reading Commenting On and Grading | |
Coaching the Writing Process and Handling the Paper Load | |
Use Efficient Methods for Giving Written Feedback | |
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Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical ... John C. Bean No preview available - 2011 |
Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical ... John C. Bean No preview available - 2011 |
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