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By using a student text as a teaching tool in your classroom, you can help isolate and illustrate writing skills that students may not recognize in [potentially intimidating] writing intended for a professional or scholarly audience. Here are two methods of selecting student texts and the accompanying skills you wish to teach. Start with the [...]

Would you like to develop a writing resource based on a student text for your classroom?  Here’s a brief guide to get you started.  While each of these steps may not appear in every student writing guide or in this particular order, we’ve found it’s often useful to include the following: Introduce and define a [...]

The documents available under the “Resources for Students” tab were developed for both direct student use and for faculty-moderated use in the classroom. Each resource entry uses the student writing on i Magazine as models to define and illustrate a specific writing skill, then guides students through the steps of implementing that skill. Faculty can [...]