Good Afternoon Developers,
I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! If you live in Minnesota, it is finally starting to feel like summer here. If you live in other states, I hope you are enjoying some summer weather too.
As you continue working on your course development(s), please be thinking of ways to incorporate writing into your course(s). Globe Education Network's Writing Across the Curriculum initiative serves to prepare our students to be effective communicators in their professions. Recognizing this at the development stage of a course helps to reinforce this in all programs.
When it comes to creating a writing assignment, in today's media world the options are endless. While the informality of online or social writing and its place in academia is highly debated,
The Chronicle of Higher Education highlights an excellent study out of Stanford in terms of what students can gain from both formal and informal writing assignments. I encourage you to click here and read this article: Studies Explore Whether the Internet Makes Students Better Writers. The "Curricular Implications" segment in particular offers some great ideas on how informal writing as part of a course can strongly prepare students for the real life professional environment.
After reading the article, I encourage you to think of a writing assignment that you could implement into your course development(s) even if the course(s) is not a traditional writing course.
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Thanks,
Heather
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