Resources for Teaching Writing

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Howe Center for Writing Excellence

The Howe Center for Writing Excellence has put together various guides and bibliographies to help you with specific topics pertaining to the teaching of writing in your classes.

Designing Writing Assignments for Deep Learning
This resource provides a process for designing (or redesigning) your writing assignments so they align with your course learning goals, resulting in a cohesive design that will help students learn content and achieve your learning goals. The page also links to additional resources for scaffolding (breaking down a larger assignment), naming assignments, and other resources and best practices for assignment design.
Examples of Effective Writing Assignments
Browse some of the best writing assignments we've seen across disciplines at Miami.
Resources for Teaching Grammar Rhetorically
These resources can help you teach grammar rhetorically and respond to grammar in context. We also cover responding to English language learners, which can be useful for responding to all writers.
Resources for Teaching Literature Reviews
This page covers what literature reviews are and how students (both undergraduate and graduate) can write them.
Supporting Graduate Writers
This resource provides guiding principles and recommendations (all backed by research) for supporting graduate student writers in your courses, in your advising, and across your programs.
Facilitating Effective Peer Response
Review our recommendations on peer response, which emphasize the importance of spending time to plan logistics and prepare students with prompts and tools for providing useful feedback.
Creating Capstone Assignments
In this document, we provide recommendations and resources on creating effective capstone assignments that use writing as a means of learning.

The Howe Center for Writing Excellence has put together various guides and bibliographies to help you adapt to online instruction, learn more about teaching online, and specifically teaching writing online.

Resources for Teaching Online
These resources should be useful if you are setting up any online course for the first time. Includes podcasts and websites with best practices, support, and other pedagogical resources.
Resources for Teaching Writing Online
This page includes a list of books, articles, and online sources specific to online writing instruction.
Facilitate Effective Online Discussions
This resource provides recommendations for facilitating effective online discussions. It draws from various articles and sources, which are included as further reading.
Facilitate Effective Group and Team Work
This resource provides principles, recommendations, and links to other information for creating and facilitating small groups for informal lower stakes activities and teams for higher stakes, long-term projects.
Facilitate Effective Online Peer Response
This resource outlines our overall recommendations on facilitating effective online peer response, emphasizing the importance of spending time to carefully plan the peer response and prepare students with prompts and tools for providing useful feedback.
Give Feedback to Online Writers
This resource provides best practices for responding to writers in online classes, as well as a list of resources.
Support Graduate Students Remotely
This resource provides suggestions for working with graduate student writers online and from a distance. These suggestions are based on both online writing pedagogy best practices and scholarship on graduate student writing support, with links to further reading.

Howe Center for Writing Excellence

The mission of the HCWE is to ensure that Miami supports its students in developing as effective writers in college, and fully prepares all of its graduates to excel as clear, concise, and persuasive writers in their careers, communities, and personal lives.

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