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UMass Lowell's First Year Writing Program

Student and Instructor Resources. Scheduled to be migrated to Blackboard FA23. (per Ann Dean)

Best practices in writing pedagogy

Bean, John C., and Maryellen Weimer. Engaging Ideas the Professor’s Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom. San Francisco, CA, Jossey-Bass, 2011.   

Booth, Wayne C., et al. Booth, Wayne C., et al. “Assembling Reasons and Evidence.” The Craft of Research, The University of Chicago Press, 2016, pp. 151–159. Print. 

Burkholder, Pete. “Teaching Students How to Make the Right Call on Cell Phones.” Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning, 11 Sept. 2017                

Haswell, Richard. “Teaching of Writing in Higher Education.” Handbook of Research on Writing: History, Society, School, Individual, Text. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 2008. 331–346. Print.

Hillocks Jr., George. “Commentary on ‘Research in Secondary English, 1912-2011: Historical Continuities and Discontinuities in the NCTE Imprint’.” Research in the Teaching of English 46.2 (2011): 187–192. Print.