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The Pocket Instructor, writing : 50 exercises for the college classroom / edited by Amanda Irwin Wilkins and Keith Shaw.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Skills for scholars.
- Skills for Scholars Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Academic writing--Problems, exercises, etc.
- Academic writing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Writing
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- Fifty easy-to-deploy active learning exercises for teaching academic writing in any fieldThe Pocket Instructor: Writing offers fifty practical exercises for teaching students the core elements of successful academic writing. The exercises—created by faculty from a broad range of disciplines and institutions—are organized along the arc of a writing project, from brainstorming and asking analytical questions to drafting, revising, and sharing work with audiences outside traditional academia. They present students with engaging intellectual challenges to work through together, arriving at generalizable lessons that transfer well across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.Students will learn to articulate a thoughtful question, develop a persuasive thesis, analyze complex evidence, and engage responsibly with sources. The Pocket Instructor: Writing offers teachers concrete ideas about how to cultivate habits of radical revision and create a classroom community with an ethos of trust where students learn to give meaningful feedback. Written for both novice and veteran instructors, this essential guide will benefit faculty in any field who hope to improve student writing in their courses.Key features:• Exercises by experienced faculty from a wide range of disciplines and institutions• Step-by-step instructions with instructor insights for each exercise• A “Writing Lexicon” for terms such as motive, thesis, analysis, evidence, and method• Guidance for avoiding plagiarism• Index and cross-references to aid in course planning
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- A Writing Lexicon
- Declaring Your Independence
- A Small Green Turtle
- Student, Grade Thyself
- Starting
- Establishing an Ethos
- A Storytelling Game
- Rock Your Classroom
- Down with the Campus Food Monopoly!
- Mapping Personal and Scholarly Motive
- Launching a Project
- A Moveable Feast
- Copy That!
- The How and the Why
- Great Expectations
- The Scholarship of Strange Sources
- Thesis Improv
- Drafting
- Interpreting Texts
- Teaching Textual Irreverence
- Put On Some Clothes!
- Cloudy Key Terms
- Picturing Analysis
- Making Analytical Connections
- The Principle of Charity
- Engaging with Sources
- What Makes ToCs Tick?
- Trust Your Gut (But Not Too Much)
- Epistolary Experiments
- Click to Reply
- Don't Forget Your Backpack
- Synthesizing Science
- Puzzling Out Structure with a Jigsaw
- The Data Never Speaks for Itself
- From Graphs to Questions
- Revising
- The Draft Workshop and Variations
- The Draft Workshop
- Speedback
- The Editorial Board
- Diagnosing Drafts
- Project Falcon
- Charting Your Contribution
- The Source Use Proximity Map
- Building Original Arguments
- Losing Your Keys
- You Can't Have Everything
- Practicing Revision
- Stages of Historical Analysis
- Tying Down Your Thought Balloons
- Replying to Real Objections
- Source Function BINGO
- The Rhetoric of Source Use
- Students Surf Internet in Class! You'll Never Believe How This Instructor Used It to Teach Writing!
- Wrecking a Sentence
- Disciplining Sentences
- Transferring
- Think Again
- Learning to Read Your Readers' Minds
- The Accidental Experts
- Into the Public Square
- The Art of Film Reviewing
- Listening to Motive
- Preventing Plagiarism
- Bag the Fox: A Plagiarism-Prevention Workshop.
- Lightning Strikes: What to Do in Fifteen Minutes or Less
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Five Cross-Indexes to Help You Plan Ahead
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780691256566
- 069125656X
- OCLC:
- 1451098375
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