Writing Intensive Instructor Resources
These materials are designed to help WI instructors teach the standards and practices of writing in their disciplines. Your students have been introduced to academic writing and research in UWS, and you can benefit by becoming familiar with UWS learning goals and terminology. We are working with faculty to develop Departmental Writing Guides, including Biology, Economics, and Psychology, with more to come. Discipline-Specific and Interdisciplinary Materials developed at Brandeis and elsewhere are listed below, followed by Peer Review and Self-Assessment resources that can help your students compose, self-evaluate, and revise. Finally, we offer guidance on developing your own Evaluating, Commenting and Grading practices.
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Writing Intensive (WI) instructors can benefit from understanding what students have learned in their University Writing Seminar (UWS), a topic-based writing course that every Brandeis student takes in one of their first two semesters. This course is designed to introduce students to college-level writing and to prepare them for writing in their courses across the disciplines. While it is impossible to teach students everything about all writing in one semester, we strive to approach writing from an interdisciplinary perspective. Having taken UWS, students are entering your WI courses with a strong writing foundation.
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The materials in these writing guides were designed as a resource for WI instructors and other faculty integrating writing in the classroom. The materials can be used to support thinking and teaching about discipline-specific writing conventions, and to position writing in your discipline relative to what students learn in UWS. Many of these materials can be shared with or modified for sharing with students.
