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Help Improve Our Students’ Writing

Learn how to improve students' writing by utilizing resources like the UP Writing Center, establishing consistent expectations, engaging with Writing Assistants, and offering progressive writing courses from 1st to 4th year. Explore the Writing in Discipline Program at Pamplin School of Business.

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Help Improve Our Students’ Writing

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  1. Help Improve Our Students’ Writing Todd Easton Pamplin School of Business https://sites.up.edu/easton/

  2. 1) By pitching in

  3. A good resource for improving an assignment • The director of the UP Writing Center • Currently, Molly Hiro (hiro@up.edu)

  4. 2) By creating consistent expectations • Post our writing handbook to your class Moodle page • Refer to it in your assignment sheet • Here’s a link: • https://sites.up.edu/easton/wp-content/uploads/sites/104/2019/08/expectations-for-student-writing.pdf

  5. 3) By making good use of the Writing Center • Share your assignment with Writing Assistants in advance • Our Writing Assistants: Kenny Hiraoka and Daylin Kuboyama • Provide an incentive for your students to meet with a Writing Assistant • Share the “how to make an appointment” link with your students • https://www.up.edu/learningcommons/writing-center/make-an-appointment.html

  6. 4) By building students’ writing skills progressively, from their 1st year to their 4th Barb Bloom a) BUS 100 b) BUS 250 c) 400-level, in-major classes • Writing in the Discipline Program, WD Program • Bulletin link: • http://up.smartcatalogiq.com/2019-2020/bulletin/General-Information/Fundamental-Questions

  7. Pamplin School of BusinessSecond Writing in Discipline Classes

  8. Motivation for the Writing in the Discipline Program (quoted from the Bulletin) • By offering writing intensive courses in every major, this program: • Helps students to master learning outcomes related to writing articulated by their department or school. • Introduces students to the type of writing required in the discipline and to think and write in their respective disciplines. • Provides all students courses with a significant writing component that will increase the ability of student to write and think critically.

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