WAC: Responding to Student Writing Online

Responding to student writing is one of the most important teaching practices faculty have in their toolbox. Yet if you’re like most teachers, you give copious amounts of feedback and often feel that the effort is wasted as more and more papers come up with the same issues. How can we turn that around? What can we do to make sure students benefit from effective response without faculty becoming full-time responders?  

In this online workshop, you will explore several high-impact practices for responding to student writing in focused and purposeful ways as you work to find the “sweet spot” between overwhelming students with endless commentary and making them feel that their writing isn’t even being read.  

Key take-aways from this workshop: 

• Methods for scaffolding response so that it builds on students’ previous experiences with writing and focuses your feedback on key disciplinary goals; 
• Multimodal “best practices” for engaging student writers through different types of feedback; and  
• Suggestions for supporting student writers from linguistically diverse backgrounds. 

Because this workshop is self-paced, you can sign up anytime by joining the following Canvas course: https://ecu.instructure.com/enroll/LBD8KK

As always, if you have any questions about the University Writing Program or you need specific help with some aspect of teaching or assessing writing in your course, reach out to Dr. Kerri Flinchbaugh (flinchbaughk@ecu.edu), assistant director of the University Writing Program.