Watch the CAFE/UWRB session, “Often Wrong, Never Uncertain”: Large Language Models and AI Literacy, from 3 March 2023
Watch the CAFE/UWRB session, "Revising Writing: How To Do It and How to Teach It," from 6 April 2022
Watch the CAFE/UWRB session, “How Do You Teach Writing?: A Multidisciplinary Discussion,” from 29 October 2021
Watch the UWRB Workshop, “Tips and Tricks for Teaching Writing,” from 9 April 2021
Access Dr. Amy Mecklenburg-Faenger's PowerPoint slides and handouts from her session at the CAFE Conference on May 18, 2022:
The ÐÔÊӽ紫ý Writing Studio helps undergraduate and graduate students at any stage of their writing projects at no charge. ÐÔÊӽ紫ý faculty can schedule workshops for their classes on topics ranging from the writing process to using electronic sources to developing arguments.
ÐÔÊӽ紫ý Writing Studio Resources include concise handouts for students on topics such as integrating sources, using commas correctly, and editing concerns. /asm/writing-studio/writing-resources.html
Purdue OWL writing lab provides APA, MLA, and Chicago style guides and useful writing guides.
The (WAC) Clearinghouse is an open-access educational website that provides pedagogical resources.
The Learning Center of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shares its guides to helping students learn to read carefully and critically:
K-university teacher-researchers belonging to the have a of advocating for social justice and antiracism matters being included in curriculum decisions and teaching practices. Position statements and research briefs such as (1974), (2005), (2018), and (2018) paved the way for recent statements responding to our students’ and neighbors’ voices in our classrooms, in our legislative spaces, and in our streets: (2020) and T (2020). These resources provide guidance about how teachers, departments, and educational institutions can engage with matters of diversity, equity, and inclusion in systematic and actionable ways.
To assess the writing and reading skills of students at the beginning of the semester, Dr. Crystal Doss, Director of Composition in the ÐÔÊӽ紫ý English Department, uses this student survey.
To encourage careful reading, Dr. Henrietta Rix Wood of the ÐÔÊӽ紫ý Honors College uses reading groups that ask students to perform different roles, such as discussion leader or devil’s advocate, as they read assigned texts. Download the reading groups guide.
ÐÔÊӽ紫ý faculty can find good models of undergraduate writing in two ÐÔÊӽ紫ý student journals and motivate their students to write well by encouraging them to submit their work to these publications:
ÐÔÊӽ紫ý Undergraduate Research provides undergraduate research opportunities, grants, and other resources.
The UWRB recommends these texts for faculty and students: