Watch the CAFE/UWRB session, “Often Wrong, Never Uncertain”: Large Language Models and AI Literacy, from 3 March 2023
Watch the CAFE/UWRB session, "Revising Writing: How To Do It and How to Teach It," from 6 April 2022
Watch the CAFE/UWRB session, “How Do You Teach Writing?: A Multidisciplinary Discussion,” from 29 October 2021
Watch the UWRB Workshop, “Tips and Tricks for Teaching Writing,” from 9 April 2021
Access Dr. Amy Mecklenburg-Faenger's PowerPoint slides and handouts from her session at the CAFE Conference on May 18, 2022:
“But I’m Not a Writing Teacher”: Helping Students Grow as Writers
The UMKC Writing Studio helps undergraduate and graduate students at any stage of their writing projects at no charge. UMKC faculty can schedule workshops for their classes on topics ranging from the writing process to using electronic sources to developing arguments.
UMKC Writing Studio Resources include concise handouts for students on topics such as integrating sources, using commas correctly, and editing concerns. https://www.umkc.edu/asm/writing-studio/writing-resources.html
Purdue OWL writing lab provides APA, MLA, and Chicago style guides and useful writing guides.
The Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Clearinghouse is an open-access educational website that provides pedagogical resources.
The Learning Center of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shares its guides to helping students learn to read carefully and critically:
K-university teacher-researchers belonging to the National Council of Teachers of English have a longstanding history of advocating for social justice and antiracism matters being included in curriculum decisions and teaching practices. Position statements and research briefs such as Students’ Right to Their Own Language (1974), Supporting Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Learners in English Education (2005), Expanding Opportunities: Academic Success for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students (2018), and Statement on Anti-Racism to Support Teaching and Learning (2018) paved the way for recent statements responding to our students’ and neighbors’ voices in our classrooms, in our legislative spaces, and in our streets: Position Statement on Indigenous Peoples and People of Color (IPOC) in English and Language Arts Materials (2020) and This Ain’t Another Statement! This is a Demand for Black Linguistic Justice! (2020). These resources provide guidance about how teachers, departments, and educational institutions can engage with matters of diversity, equity, and inclusion in systematic and actionable ways.
To assess the writing and reading skills of students at the beginning of the semester, Dr. Crystal Doss, Director of Composition in the UMKC English Department, uses this student survey.
To encourage careful reading, Dr. Henrietta Rix Wood of the UMKC Honors College uses reading groups that ask students to perform different roles, such as discussion leader or devil’s advocate, as they read assigned texts. Download the reading groups guide.
UMKC faculty can find good models of undergraduate writing in two UMKC student journals and motivate their students to write well by encouraging them to submit their work to these publications:
UMKC Undergraduate Research provides undergraduate research opportunities, grants, and other resources.
The UWRB recommends these texts for faculty and students: