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Advice about Designing Assignments
  Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing
  Burning Questions--Why Your Students Should Have Them
  But What Kind of Assignments Should You Give? Consider Your Options
  Designing Assignments to Discourage Plagiarism
  Designing Effective Writing Assignments
  Emphasizing the Right Thing at the Right Time: Differentiating Between Global and Local Concerns in Student Writing
  Options for Incorporating Oral Communication Activities into Your Course
  Some Questions to Ask as You Design an Assignment
  Teaching Writing in Multidisciplinary Graduate Courses
  Why Learning to Write Well in College is Difficult
 
Assigning Group Papers
  Examples of Group Paper Assignments and Materials for Collaborative Writing
 
Examples of Formal Writing Assignments
  A Collaborative (Sequenced Research) Paper in Geography
  A Memo to the Instructor
  A Sequence of Formal and Informal Assignments
  Astronomy 236 Writing Assignments
  Building process into a Theater Arts research project
  Chemistry 511: Short Essay on an Element
  Chemistry 511: Short Research Proposal
  Deviance Project
  Explicit Guidelines for a Formal Paper Assignment, with Peer Review
  Oral Peer Review After a First Draft
  Precis Assignment
  Psychology 280 Descriptive Statistics Media Report
  Sample Assignments from Chemistry 108 (Chemistry in Context)
  Sequence of Assignments for an Introductory Theatre & Drama Course
  Sequencing and Coaching the Research Paper
  Team Poster for the Genetic Linkage Project
  Writing an Introduction for a Scientific Paper
  Writing Assignments in Anthropology 490
  Writing Projects in Statistics 301
 
Examples of Informal Writing Assignments
  A Sample Journal Assignment
  A Sequence of Formal and Informal Assignments
  Designing Writing Assignments for *Non-Majors*
  Short, Informal Writing Assignments in a Literature Course
  Teaching Writing in Multidisciplinary Graduate Courses
  The Fifty-Word Assignment
  The Weekly One-Pager
  Three Innovative Writing Assignments in an African Languages and Literature Course
 
Examples of Unusual and Creative Assignments
  A Guide--with Rubrics--to Writing in a Math Course
  Designing Writing Assignments for *Non-Majors*
  Mock Trial Assignment
  Psychology 280 Descriptive Statistics Media Report
  Sequence of Assignments for an Introductory Theatre & Drama Course
  Three Innovative Writing Assignments in an African Languages and Literature Course
  Writing to Learn in a Math Class
 
Effective Assignments
  Grading Scale for Papers in Lit Trans 236-2 (Spring 2000)
  Individual Consultations with UW-Madison Faculty, Academic Staff, and TAs
  Some Questions to Ask as You Design an Assignment
  WAC Teaching Network--Advice from Colleagues