Description: This workshop shows how you can use genre-based pedagogy and an online tool, WriteOnline.ca, to guide and support your students in writing one of four academic assignments: lab reports, reflective essays, case study reports, and literature reviews. WriteOnline.ca is a set of open-access online modules designed to help students navigate different disciplinary writing genres. Each module offers in-depth instructions through planning, research, drafting, and revising, as well as annotated models, templates, and worksheets. Workshop participants will be introduced to the website and will learn how to integrate a module into a flipped or blended classroom. They will use the modules to design a scaffolded assignment, and they will select components and tools to help students engage in peer review.
WriteOnline.ca was developed by the writing centres at the University of Waterloo, the University of Guelph, and Wilfrid Laurier University, in conjunction with Waterloo’s Centre for Extended Learning. A revised and expanded version of the website launches January 5, 2017.
Learning Outcomes: After this session, you will be able to:
- explain the benefits of teaching writing through genre-based pedagogy;
- construct a lesson plan for teaching or workshopping an academic genre using WriteOnline.ca in a flipped or blended classroom;
- design a scaffolded writing assignment using the components and worksheets in WriteOnline.ca.
Facilitator: Clare Bermingham (Writing Centre), Amy Greene (Writing Centre), and Jacqui McIsaac (Writing Centre)
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