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A practical nuts and bolts guide for teachers from any discipline who want to design interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities. Engaging Ideas : Shows how teachers can encourage inquiry, exploration, discussion, and debate in their courses. Presents a wide variety of strategies for stimulating active learning and for coaching writing and critical thinking. Offers teachers concrete advice on how to design courses, structure assignment, use class time, critique student performance, and model critical thinking activities. Demonstrates how writing can easily be integrated with such other critical thinking activities and inquiry discussions, simulation games, classroom debates, and interactive lectures.

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• Using Writing to Promote Thinking: A Busy Professor's Guide to the Whole Book
• Understanding Connections Between Thinking And Writing
• How Writing is Related to Critical Thinking
• Engaging All Learners: Valuing Professional and Personal Writing
• Dealing with Issues of Grammar and Correctness
• Designing Problem-Based Assignments
• Formal Writing Assignments
• Informal, Exploratory Writing Activities
• Coaching Students as Learners, Thinkers, and Writers
• Designing Tasks for Active Thinking and Learning
• Helping Students Read Difficult Texts
• Coaching Thinking Through the Use of Small Groups
• Alternative Approaches to Active Learning in the Classroom
• Enhancing Learning and Critical Thinking in Essay Exams
• Encouraging Engagement and Inquiry in Research Papers
• Reading, Commenting on, and Grading Student Writing
• Coaching the Writing Process and Handling the Paper Load
• Writing Comments on Students' Papers
• Developing and Applying Grading Criteria

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

JOHN C. BEAN is professor of English at Seattle University, where he directs the writing program and chairs the Task Force on Teaching and Learning. He is coauthor (with John D. Ramage) of Writing Arguments (3rd ed., 1995) and Form and Surprise in Composition (1986).