The teaching of argument, persuasion, narrative, scientific reporting, and so on often involves the visual. From the Power Point to the website to the poster to the written text, visuality plays a key role. Information is Beautiful, http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/, is a weblog with excellent examples of how the visual affects written communication. These examples can be [...]
CosmoLearning is a website devoted to free education. It is an interesting model for aggregating information for students to learn from because:
It was formed by two high school students (for homeschooling purposes) and shows what students are capable of creating with free software.
It counters many of our narratives regarding doing research on the Internet (i.e., [...]
From the website, Profhacker, some thoughts on using wikis in the classroom. The Campus Writing Program encourages you to use its wiki, http://cwp.missouri.edu/wiki/.
Anne Trubek, Director of Composition at Oberlin, offers a compelling discussion of writing and online applications in this essay, “We Are All Writers Now.”
Take the “25 Things About Me” meme that raged around Facebook a few months
ago. This time-waster, as many saw it, is precisely the kind of brainstorming exercise I used to assign to [...]
Video from The Chronicle of Higher Education prompts instructors to think about free and easy to use blogging software instead of Blackboard. An article accompanies the video.
Writing Intensive (WI) courses help produce an educated, articulate citizenry capable of reasoning critically, solving complex problems,and communicating with clear and effective language.
Writing is the basis of all work. We write to learn, and we write in discipline specific ways.
The University of Missouri Campus Writing Program strives to help all faculty develop Writing Intensive courses.
The Campus Writing Program Staff
