Minimal Marking: A Student-Centered Approach to Teaching Writing Across the Disciplines

Minimal Marking is a strategy for responding to student writing that also helps student improve their grammar and editing skills. This interactive workshop, which is the product of a collaboration of the University Writing Program and a teacher from Health Education and Promotion, explores best practices for responding to student writing, focusing primarily on one strategy for response that can also help teach grammar: Minimal Marking.

Utilizing examples from her own teaching practices, Tamra Church shares what she has learned from using Minimal Marking to help students find and correct their own sentence-level errors in their own writing. Faculty participants investigate both low- and high-stakes writing assignments, differences between revising and editing, and how to use Minimal Marking to address sentence-level errors and help students become active participants in their learning and writing processes.