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Writing Skills Development

All classes, regardless of discipline, should have some element of writing involved.  In order to be successful in their adult lives and careers, students need to have a better understanding of writing skills including punctuation, grammar and essay development.  The sites below will provide ideas of how writing skills can be broadened in all your courses.

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Helping Students Write Better In All Courses

Barbara Gross Davis, University of California - Berkeley

The author of this book chapter provides some guidelines for integrating writing skills exercises into all classes.

The Writing Process

Online Writing Lab, Purdue University

This site has a series of tutorials that cover a variety of writing topics.

The Writer's Complex

Empire State College

This site features workshops on Essay Writing, Punctuation Points, Grammar Workout and Style Seminar.

Writing for Learning--
Not Just for Demonstrating Learning

The National Teaching and Learning Forum

This article suggests that instructors should not concentrate just on good writing, but on writing to learn, which is writing to understand and remember.

WritingDEN

Digital Education Network, Media Ltd.

This site has free tutorials to improve reading and writing skills at three levels of difficulty: words, sentences, and paragraphs.