Engaging Ideas (eBook)

The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom

John C. Bean (Autor)

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2011 | 2. Auflage
384 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-1-118-06233-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Learn to design interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities and incorporate them into your courses in a way that encourages inquiry, exploration, discussion, and debate, with Engaging Ideas, a practical nuts-and-bolts guide for teachers from any discipline. Integrating critical thinking with writing-across-the-curriculum approaches, the book shows how teachers from any discipline can incorporate these activities into their courses. This edition features new material dealing with genre and discourse community theory, quantitative/scientific literacy, blended and online learning, and other current issues.

Autor

John C. Bean is professor of English at Seattle University. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and the coauthor of several leading composition and argument textbooks.

Inhalt

Foreword by Maryellen Weimer vii

Preface to the Second Edition xi

About the Author xxi

1 Using Writing to Promote Thinking: A BusyProfessor's Guide to the Whole Book 1

PART 1 UNDERSTANDING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THINKING ANDWRITING

2 How Writing Is Related to Critical Thinking 17

3 Helping Writers Think Rhetorically 39

4 Using a Range of Genres to Extend Critical Thinking andDeepen Learning 52

5 Dealing with Issues of Grammar and Correctness 66

PART 2 DESIGNING PROBLEM-BASED ASSIGNMENTS

6 Formal Writing Assignments 89

7 Informal, Exploratory Writing Activities 120

PART 3 COACHING STUDENTS AS LEARNERS, THINKERS, ANDWRITERS

8 Designing Tasks to Promote Active Thinking and Learning149

9 Helping Students Read Difficult Texts 161

10 Using Small Groups to Coach Thinking and TeachDisciplinary Argument 183

11 Bringing More Critical Thinking into Lectures andDiscussions 202

12 Enhancing Learning and Critical Thinking in EssayExams 211

13 Designing and Sequencing Assignments to TeachUndergraduate Research 224

PART 4 READING, COMMENTING ON, AND GRADING STUDENTWRITING

14 Using Rubrics to Develop and Apply Grading Criteria267

15 Coaching the Writing Process and Handling the PaperLoad 290

16 Writing Comments on Students' Papers 317

References 337

Index 353

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.7.2011
• Vorwort: Maryellen Weimer
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Schlagworte: Bildungswesen • Education • Hochschulen / Lehren u. Lernen • Teaching & Learning (Higher Education)
• ISBN-10: 1-118-06233-7 / 1118062337
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-06233-3 / 9781118062333