encourages contact between students and faculty,

1. encourages contact between students and faculty, • develops reciprocity and cooperation among students, • encourages active learning, • gives prompt feedback, • emphasizes time on task, • communicates high expectations, and • respects diverse talents and ways of learning.

2. Play the Believing Game Visualize success. While composing, ignore negative thoughts (such as, I don’t have enough time, this is a stupid idea, I’ll never get this published).

3. Place Emphasis on the Students’ Writing • Be creative & flexible. Acknowledge diverse learning styles and composing processes.

4. Create a Community for Writers • Create a climate of trust, respect, honesty, and standards. • Guide/Grade peer review • Model editing, collaboration, revision…… • Meet individual writers at level of need • Conference, individualized feedback • Be respectful… • Balancing coaching w/ refereeing/judging • Don’t play grading games

5. Establish Clear/Rigorous Expectations • Transparent Assignments/Rubrics • Maintain a reasonable schedule; help keep students on task.

6. Work students through the writing process

7. Responding to Writing • Provide prompt, thoughtful, prioritized responses to papers (Time on Task: 15/minutes/essay) • Integrate rubric/evaluation criteria throughout writing process • Try different approaches (conferences, email, track changes, wikis, printed rubrics, etc.) • Get feedback from students regarding usefulness of responses • Have time following distribution of papers/comments (next class meeting) to discuss evaluatoins • Don’t serve as co-author/copyeditor