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Engaging ideas : the professor's guide to integrating writing, critical thinking, and active learning in the classroom / John C. Bean.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, ?2011.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xxi, 360 pages : illustrations ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 9780470532904
  • 0470532904
  • 9781118062319
  • 1118062310
  • 9781118062326
  • 1118062329
  • 9781118062333
  • 1118062337
Other title:
  • Professor's guide to integrating writing, critical thinking, and active learning in the classroom [Portion of title]
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PE1404 .B35 2011
Contents:
1. Using writing to promote thinking: a busy professor's guide to the whole book -- Part 1: Understanding connections between thinking and writing -- 2. How writing is related to critical thinking -- 3. Helping writers think rhetorically -- 4. Using a range of genres to extend critical thinking and deepen learning -- 5. Dealing with issues of grammar and correctness -- Part 2: Designing problem-based assignments -- 6. Formal writing assignments -- 7. Informal, exploratory writing activities -- Part 3: Coaching students as learners, thinkers, and writers -- 8. Designing tasks to promote active thinking and learning -- 9. Helping students read difficult texts -- 10. Using small groups to coach thinking and teach disciplinary argument -- 11. Bringing more critical thinking into lectures and discussions -- 12. Enhancing learning and critical thinking in essay exams -- 13. Designing and sequencing assignments to teach undergraduate research -- Part 4: Reading, commenting on, and grading student writing -- 14. Using rubrics to develop and apply grading criteria -- 15. Coaching the writing process and handling the paper load -- 16. Writing comments on students' papers.
Summary: "Engaging Ideas, Second Edition is a practical nuts-and-bolts guide for teachers from any discipline who want to design interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities and incorporate them into their courses in a way that encourages inquiry, exploration, discussion, and debate. Integrating critical thinking with writing-across-the-curriculum approaches, the book shows how teachers from any discipline can incorporate these activities into their courses. This edition features new material dealing with genre and discourse community theory, quantitative/scientific literacy, blended and online learning, and other current issues."--Publisher information.
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"Engaging Ideas, Second Edition is a practical nuts-and-bolts guide for teachers from any discipline who want to design interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities and incorporate them into their courses in a way that encourages inquiry, exploration, discussion, and debate. Integrating critical thinking with writing-across-the-curriculum approaches, the book shows how teachers from any discipline can incorporate these activities into their courses. This edition features new material dealing with genre and discourse community theory, quantitative/scientific literacy, blended and online learning, and other current issues."--Publisher information.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-352) and index.

1. Using writing to promote thinking: a busy professor's guide to the whole book -- Part 1: Understanding connections between thinking and writing -- 2. How writing is related to critical thinking -- 3. Helping writers think rhetorically -- 4. Using a range of genres to extend critical thinking and deepen learning -- 5. Dealing with issues of grammar and correctness -- Part 2: Designing problem-based assignments -- 6. Formal writing assignments -- 7. Informal, exploratory writing activities -- Part 3: Coaching students as learners, thinkers, and writers -- 8. Designing tasks to promote active thinking and learning -- 9. Helping students read difficult texts -- 10. Using small groups to coach thinking and teach disciplinary argument -- 11. Bringing more critical thinking into lectures and discussions -- 12. Enhancing learning and critical thinking in essay exams -- 13. Designing and sequencing assignments to teach undergraduate research -- Part 4: Reading, commenting on, and grading student writing -- 14. Using rubrics to develop and apply grading criteria -- 15. Coaching the writing process and handling the paper load -- 16. Writing comments on students' papers.

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