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The Aesthetics Of Writing Center Assessment: An Interactive Mural, Vicki Kennell, Noah Patterson
The Aesthetics Of Writing Center Assessment: An Interactive Mural, Vicki Kennell, Noah Patterson
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Presentations
This wall mural combines data and images into a holistic rendering of a writing center’s year of change. It showcases the versatility of writing centers, while highlighting the beauty of the work through the aesthetics of a mural.
Beyond The Checklist Approach: A Librarian-Faculty Collaboration To Teach The Beam Method Of Source Evaluation, Jenny Mills, Rachael Flynn, Nicole Fox, Dana Shaw, Claire Wiley
Beyond The Checklist Approach: A Librarian-Faculty Collaboration To Teach The Beam Method Of Source Evaluation, Jenny Mills, Rachael Flynn, Nicole Fox, Dana Shaw, Claire Wiley
Library Faculty Scholarship
Evaluating information is an essential skill, valued across disciplines. While librarians and instructors share the responsibility to teach this skill, they need a common framework in order to collaborate to design assignments that give students multiple opportunities to learn. Librarians and First Year Seminar faculty at Belmont University collaborated to design a unit of instruction on source evaluation using the BEAM method. BEAM requires students to apply a use-based approach to evaluation, to read and engage with sources more closely, and to think about how they might use a source for a specific purpose. Structured annotated bibliographies that included BEAM …
Improving Intercultural Skills: Developing Communicative Flexibility And Tolerance Of Ambiguity In The Writing Center, Vicki Kennell
Improving Intercultural Skills: Developing Communicative Flexibility And Tolerance Of Ambiguity In The Writing Center, Vicki Kennell
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Presentations
This presentation shares early results of an IRB-approved, cross-institutional study of the developing intercultural skills of writing center tutors and provides guidance on thinking about the implications of such data for a tutor training context. Intercultural communication involves skills such as communication flexibility, tolerance of ambiguity, and empathy. Initial data showed that many tutors need to develop these skills, that tutoring experience alone is likely insufficient for improvement, and that experience may actually decrease communication flexibility by solidifying tutors into a particular role rather than expanding their ability to flexibly apply strategies.
Wcrp Survey All Years Raw Data, Harry Denny
Wcrp Survey All Years Raw Data, Harry Denny
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Datasets and Research Projects
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Wcrp Survey 2007-8 Raw Data, Harry Denny
Wcrp Survey 2007-8 Raw Data, Harry Denny
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Datasets and Research Projects
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Wcrp Survey 2005-6 Raw Data, Harry Denny
Wcrp Survey 2005-6 Raw Data, Harry Denny
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Datasets and Research Projects
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Wcrp Survey 2003-4 Raw Data, Harry Denny
Wcrp Survey 2003-4 Raw Data, Harry Denny
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Datasets and Research Projects
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Wcrp Survey 2001-2 Raw Data, Harry Denny
Wcrp Survey 2001-2 Raw Data, Harry Denny
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Datasets and Research Projects
No abstract provided.
Just Ask Teachers: Building Expertise, Trusting Subjectivity, And Valuing Difference In Writing Assessment, Paul Walker
Just Ask Teachers: Building Expertise, Trusting Subjectivity, And Valuing Difference In Writing Assessment, Paul Walker
Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity
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Best Practices & Resources For Teaching Esl Written Communication, Linda S. Bergmann, Vicki Kennell
Best Practices & Resources For Teaching Esl Written Communication, Linda S. Bergmann, Vicki Kennell
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Presentations
This presentation, given at the Center for Instructional Excellence (CIE) Series II: Expanding Your Teaching Toolkit, offers instructors information on understanding and accommodating the ESL writers in their classrooms. Material is presented on the language abilities of the writers, on the ways in which cultural differences may be manifested in the writing itself, and on the types of accommodations that can be made in writing assignments and assessments. The talk includes information on best practices in writing for all writers and a bibliography of resources about L2 writers.