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Classroom Tips: Framing Discussions about Writing
Whether you are teaching a first-year writing course, a writing-intensive seminar, or any course that requires students to write, you can help students engage with course content and improve their wr
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Three Myths About the Writing Center
In the four years I’ve been the Director of the Writing Center, I’ve been delighted to work with faculty members from every school and every discipline on the main campus. But I’ve also learned that
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Integrating Research and Argument Across the Major
As Director of the Georgetown University Writing Program, I get to spend a lot of time talking with faculty across campus about their students’ writing and how their programs help students learn to w
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The “Content” Question in Composition: Three Take-aways
This fall, the Georgetown Writing Program’s “Reading Writing Group” has been looking at different approaches to teaching first-year writing, focusing especially on how content in a first-year composi
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3 Ideas for Thinking About Multimodal Writing: Notes from the Spring Learning Community
Last semester, we published a series of posts about multimodal writing assignments - assignments that ask students to compose not only with words, but also with other modes like images, sound, or vid
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Reading Writing Group – Fall 2018
Join your colleagues this fall for a series of discussions about teaching writing. Each month we will look at a different set of texts (from articles to book chapters to writing textbooks to assignme
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What’s new?
Welcome to our new and improved website. We now offer sections for faculty teaching first-year writing and for those whose courses fulfill the Integrated Writing requirement, as well as a variety of
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A student guide to proofreading and writing in science
Congratulations to Human Science professor Jason Tilan, who together with former GU colleagues J.P. Hyatt and Elisa Bienenstock, has just published an article based on their work on a core Integrated
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Integrated Writing: Myths and Realities
Myth: Teaching writing takes time away from teaching contentReality: You can teach writing by using course readings to examine how people in your field produce and share knowledge, make arguments, an
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