A capstone group research project for an upper-level literature course that asks students to create their own scholarly edition of a text.

For many undergraduates, the drafting process is a mystery. While they understand they should take an essay through multiple rounds of drafting, they often feel unsure about what–specifically–they should be doing in each round of drafting. Too often, they try to write the whole essay in “one go” and then only return in subsequent rounds of…[Read more]

Intensive-writing classes ostensibly focus on teaching students how to write in the disciplines and tend to have two requirements: minimum word count (5K or so) and a formal revision of at least one paper. Instructors specializing in writing pedagogy know, however, that students writing more doesn’t translate to students writing *more…[Read more]