Resources

Common Errors in Student Writing

Top Twenty Errors in Undergraduate Writing: Hume Center for Writing & Speaking – Stanford University

Common Writing Mistakes: Hamilton College

Grading Philosophy

Grading Philosophy – Jenna Sheffield, University of New Haven

Portfolio Assignment Sheets

Sample #1 First-Year Writing- Kevin Barnets, Boston Universtiy

Sample #2 A Writing Portfolio in Biology – Cindee Giffen, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Sample #3 A Portfolio Project in Math – Brad Franklin, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Sample #4 Designing a Portfolio Assingment – University of Washington

Peer Review Prompt s

Sample #1 Thesis-Driven Paper – B.Fischer, Washington University St. Louis

Sample #2 Thesis-Driven Paper – Jenna Sheffield, University of New Haven

Sample #3 Research Paper – Jenna Sheffield, University of New Haven

Sample #4 Thesis-Driven Paper – Pamela Flash, University of Minnesota

Sample #5 Open Ended Peer Review of a Lab Report – University of Hawaii at Manoa

Sample #6 Multiple Examples – Shelley Reid, George Mason University

Sample #7 Rough Draft Peer Review Persuasive Paper, -Tracy Mendham, Keene State College

Sample #8 Multiple Examples – WAC Clearinghouse

Sample #9 Business Memo (one of multiple samples listed on linked page) – Goshen College

Sample #10 Business Proposal – Franklin University

Assignment Sheets

Here is a list of some sample writing assignment sheets from faculty across a variety of disciplines. While they do not all necessarily conform to all of the best practices covered in the workshop, these assignment sheets offer ideas for interesting and practical writing tasks students can engage in to learn disciplinary writing. Often, I learn more from assignment sheets outside of my own discipline! Note: A few of these links are to syllabi that describe writing assignments.

Biology & Environmental Science

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/biology/7-28-molecular-biology-spring-2005/assignments/writing1.pdf

https://www.csus.edu/indiv/l/loom/15l%20s09/writing%20assignment.htm

Business (broad)

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-031j-energy-decisions-markets-and-policies-spring-2012/assignments/

http://www.umass.edu/buscomm/fnb.html

http://www.umass.edu/buscomm/usbuslet.html

Chemistry & Chemical Engineering

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-136j-principles-and-practice-of-drug-development-fall-2013/projects/

Communications, Film & Media Studies

http://cii.wwu.edu/showcase2003/Dietrich/resources/writing_assignments.pdf

https://www.wesleyan.edu/writing/writingworkshop/Writing%20Workshop/film.pdf

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/comparative-media-studies-writing/21w-732-science-writing-and-new-media-fall-2010/assignments/movie-essay/MIT21W_732F10_movie_over.pdf

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/comparative-media-studies-writing/cms-100-introduction-to-media-studies-fall-2014/assignments/

Computer Science

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~kay/courses/139w/influencing.html

https://www.timothyhenry.net/assignments-and-exercises https://cah.ucf.edu/wac/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/01/Low-Stakes-Writing-Assignments.pdf

Criminal Justice

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/history/21h-319-race-crime-and-citizenship-in-american-law-fall-2014/assignments/

http://wp.lps.org/ncraft/files/2013/08/Criminal-Justice-Final-Project.docx

Engineering

http://www.egr.msu.edu/classes/ece410/mason/files/guide-report.pdf

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/teacher_and_tutor_resources/writing_in_the_engineering_classroom/types_of_writing_assignments_for_engineering_courses.html

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mechanical-engineering/2-000-how-and-why-machines-work-spring-2002/tools/technicalwriting_fixed.pdf

https://www.swarthmore.edu/writing/engineering-writing-guide#General

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/materials-science-and-engineering/3-003-principles-of-engineering-practice-spring-2010/case-studies/MIT3_003S10_cs1.pdf

Journalism

https://armstrongfreelancewriting.wordpress.com/writing-assignments/

History

https://cah.ucf.edu/wac/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/01/Pineda_WACAssignments.pdf

https://cah.ucf.edu/wac/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/01/GEP-Assignment.pdf

https://cah.ucf.edu/wac/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/01/AMH-3403-US-South-to-1865.pdf

https://cah.ucf.edu/wac/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/01/Graduate-colloqium-assignment.pdf

Health Sciences

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/health-sciences-and-technology/hst-131-introduction-to-neuroscience-fall-2005/assignments/problem_set_3.pdf

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/health-sciences-and-technology/hst-151-principles-of-pharmacology-spring-2005/assignments/case_topic_desc.pdf

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mechanical-engineering/2-782j-design-of-medical-devices-and-implants-spring-2006/assignments/hw1.pdf

Political Science

https://cah.ucf.edu/wac/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/01/Scaffolding-of-Assignments-with-learning-objectives-building-up-to-a-research-paper-in-political-science.pdf

http://www.sfu.ca/~aheard/101/101_essays.html

https://politicalscience.case.edu/our-programs/course-information/course-syllabi/course-syllabi-spring-2005/posc-272/posc-272-writing-assignments/ (could double as a media assignment)

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-002j-making-public-policy-fall-2014/assignments/paper-1-health-care-reform/

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-002j-making-public-policy-fall-2014/assignments/

Sciences (broad)

https://usflearn.instructure.com/courses/812371/pages/project-2-assignment-sheet

Sociology

https://soc.appstate.edu/students/student-writing-guide/common-paper-assignments

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wmopen-introtosociology/chapter/assignments-and-discussions/

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wmopen-introtosociology/chapter/assignment-culture/

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wmopen-introtosociology/chapter/assignment-socialization/

http://sociology.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/documents/syllabi/F16/Fall%202016_Soc%203AC_Kelsey%2CMary.pdf