Guides to Teaching Writing

Assigning and Managing Collaborative Writing Projects 
Setting guidelines for the collaborative process and offering clear expectations for what the final paper should look like cannot only help students get as much as possible out of the assignment, but also make your life easier when it comes time to grade.

Beyond Plagiarism: Best Practices for the Responsible Use of Sources (website)
A series of lessons that focuses on strategies for finding, citing, analyzing, and quoting source material responsibly. Includes strategies for designing courses and assignments to prevent plagiarism and for dealing with suspected academic integrity issues.

Giving Feedback on Student Writing
This guide offers an overview of some widely shared ideas about giving good feedback, followed by descriptions of a variety of strategies for putting those ideas into practice.

Guide to Teaching First-Year Writing Requirement Courses (website)
This guide is designed to communicate both practical strategies, and the ideas behind them, as you prepare to teach your FYWR course.

Motivating Students to Read and Write in All Disciplines
This guide describes general considerations that highlight the importance of motivating students to read and write, and it offers strategies that you can use in your courses to integrate reading and writing in all disciplines.

Providing Feedback and Grades to Second Language Students
This tip sheet and the accompanying supplements will help you determine when, how, and why to adjust your feedback and grading strategies for second language learners.

Sequencing and Scaffolding Assignments
Whether you’re teaching a course flagged as writing intensive, or a content-heavy course with minimal writing, you can effectively incorporate writing tasks to enhance student learning.

Supporting Multimodal Literacy 
Whether you're assigning an analysis of an advertisement, a film, a photograph from the news, scientific visual data, or other multimodal forms, this resource offers specific ways to support students' critical thinking about multimodal texts.

Teaching Citation and Documentation Norms
This guide covers avoiding plagiarism and producing in-text citations and reference lists; and, discussing citation norms to help students become aware of how those norms function rhetorically within your scholarly community.

Teaching Multimodal Composition
Multimodal composition assignments can offer students valuable learning opportunities, especially when it comes to building rhetorical skills. This resource offers guidance and addresses challenges that may be unfamiliar to many instructors teaching multimodal composition.

Teaching with ePortfolios
In this resource you will find strategies for their use at the unit-level, course- or program-level, developing writer level, and further readings if you want to learn more.

Teaching Writing in the Disciplines (website)
Companion website for WRITING 993, a theory and practice course for graduate students serving as instructors and graders of undergrad courses that fulfill the Upper-Level Writing Requirement at U-M.

Using Peer Review to Improve Student Writing
This guide first describes general considerations that can help improve the quality of the feedback students offer one another before describing several strategies for managing peer review.