Teaching Writing in First-Year Seminars

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Much of this guide addresses connections between academic and “real world” writing. Students, like many of the rest of us, will often subscribe to a dichotomy between academia and the rest of the world that includes sharp distinctions between academic and real world writing. In addition to the suggestions offered in previous sections of this unit, the following ideas will help you challenge these distinctions.

• Examine the dichotomy
• Assign multiple writing forms
• Integrate journal writing
• Introduce opportunities for ungraded writing