How to Use Writing for Teaching and Learning

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'How to Use Writing for Teaching and Learning offers a clear, digestible curriculum for the Writing Across the Curriculum or Writing in the Disciplines faculty development seminar. Hudd, Smart, Delohery, and Torres pack a great deal of learning theory and writing studies scholarship into a practical course structure. A core contribution the authors make comes in their PTA - Prioritization, Translation, Analogy - model of cognition and its value for faculty designing courses, scaffolding assignments, and planning classroom activities. This book sits comfortably alongside John Bean's Engaging Ideas or Katherine Gottschalk and Keith Hjortshoj's The Elements of Teaching Writing. What it offers, though, is a bit different. It offers faculty a vehicle for designing a course that uses writing to cultivate thinking by helping them consider the "story" of their course.' -- Michael J. Cripps, University of New England, USA 'How to Use Writing for Teaching and Learning makes the college writing instructor's labor anxiety-free. Writing faculty are given guidance in how and why to structure a syllabus and compose writing-to-learn scaffolding prompts to encourage critical thinking. As a writing instructor for nearly forty years, I have shared these methods with colleagues. My experience has been a liberating one for faculty and students. Students felt free to push and pull at readings and compare differing opinions or attitudes on a subject and composed nuanced and well-supported essays, because the thinking involved resonated with them. This book on setting students free to think and write, while encouraging confidence in faculty employing the methods, is excellent.' -- Richard Murphy, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, USA 'This book is for faculty across all disciplines who wish to engage students' critical thinking through writing. It includes exercises, reflections, and readings, addressing the many aspects of teaching with writing, including using informal writing, developing reading and writing assignments, and designing student learning outcomes and assessments. Overall, the book highlights the value of teaching with writing, the value of teaching for critical thinking, and - of particular importance - the value of reading in higher education.' -- Michele Eodice, The Meaningful Writing Project 'More than ever in this post-pandemic era, grappling with the advent of AI, writing - no matter the discipline - is the essential tool for deep learning. New and experienced teachers alike will find strategies and exercises to dramatically enhance thinking and learning.' -- Glenda Pritchett, Quinnipiac University, USA