Janice Neuleib, Carey Applegate, Genevieve Baumann, Eileen Bularzik, Hilary Justice, & Linda Lienhart, English
The meta-analysis results of the Carnegie Corporation report, “Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle and High Schools,” provides rich insights for all college faculty. The results show that writers work best when they have specific writing strategies, when they can summarize effectively, when they write collaboratively, when they have specific product goals, when they use word-processing, when they edit at the sentence level rather than the word level, when they pre-write, when they use inquiry activities, when they use a variety of processes, when they study models, and when they write to learn. This session will provide participants with an opportunity to reflect on the uses of writing to learn in their classes and on how the successful techniques noted in this meta-analysis can be implemented in those classes. The session will address questions such as how group work can be used in class; what examples of writing to learn can be noted, whether instructors discuss and/or demonstrate their writing/research for the students, and how technology is used in class writing.
