Help Improve Our Students’ Writing

1. Help Improve Our Students’ Writing Todd Easton Pamplin School of Business https://sites.up.edu/easton/

2. 1) By pitching in

3. A good resource for improving an assignment • The director of the UP Writing Center • Currently, Molly Hiro (hiro@up.edu)

4. 2) By creating consistent expectations • Post our writing handbook to your class Moodle page • Refer to it in your assignment sheet • Here’s a link: • https://sites.up.edu/easton/wp-content/uploads/sites/104/2019/08/expectations-for-student-writing.pdf

5. 3) By making good use of the Writing Center • Share your assignment with Writing Assistants in advance • Our Writing Assistants: Kenny Hiraoka and Daylin Kuboyama • Provide an incentive for your students to meet with a Writing Assistant • Share the “how to make an appointment” link with your students • https://www.up.edu/learningcommons/writing-center/make-an-appointment.html

6. 4) By building students’ writing skills progressively, from their 1st year to their 4th Barb Bloom a) BUS 100 b) BUS 250 c) 400-level, in-major classes • Writing in the Discipline Program, WD Program • Bulletin link: • http://up.smartcatalogiq.com/2019-2020/bulletin/General-Information/Fundamental-Questions

7. Pamplin School of BusinessSecond Writing in Discipline Classes

8. Motivation for the Writing in the Discipline Program (quoted from the Bulletin) • By offering writing intensive courses in every major, this program: • Helps students to master learning outcomes related to writing articulated by their department or school. • Introduces students to the type of writing required in the discipline and to think and write in their respective disciplines. • Provides all students courses with a significant writing component that will increase the ability of student to write and think critically.