To support faculty who want to enhance the use of writing in their classes, we developed the Teaching Writing Toolkit. The Toolkit distills best practices for teaching writing and provides models for doing so.
We hope that the toolkit will energize the culture of writing and writing pedagogy at Hopkins by creating a platform for faculty to share successful and creative approaches to teaching writing.
Model Library
Sample materials including assignments, syllabi, rubrics, and more from a wide range of disciplines.
Creating Opportunities for Writing
- Collaborative Writing: How and why to have students write together.
- AI Writing in the College Classroom: Addressing the widespread availability of generative AI tools that mimic natural language.
- Writing With Data: Students learn to manage a long-term project and compose arguments with data
Supporting Students
- Writing for Metacognition: Metacognition describes an awareness of this process: the ways we absorb, assimilate, and convey information and participate in knowledge production.
- Supporting Multilingual Writers: Strategies to help multilingual students–and everyone else–succeed.
- Motivation and Emotion in the Writing Process: How to help students manage emotions while writing, and foster students’ belief in their writing success.
Giving Feedback and Assessing
- Rubrics: Starting points and sticking points in using rubrics for writing instruction.
- Making Feedback Matter: How to help students understand the feedback process as well as specific feedback, and how to equip students to use the feedback they receive.
- Peer Review: How to design and structure peer review sessions for maximum effectiveness.
- Multilingual Writing Feedback: How to approach giving feedback to writers who are still developing their English language abilities.
- Alternatives to Grading: Helping your students become better writers does not mean that you have to assign a numerical or letter grade to every writing assignment.