Guiding Students with College Writing

Sometimes non-traditional students who are not familiar with the demands of college writing. This can impede the success in both tradition classrooms and online environments. This can discourage them and impinge the overall effectiveness of the class and they no longer want to participate.

Like most aspects on teaching and learning, a little preparation before the lesson can save the instructor a lot of work after student falter. Offering tips to students in advance can provide scaffolds that will increase the student success.  Alternatively, setting up an adaptive learning system, these tips can be set to assist students who first demonstrate that they may need writing assistance.  Of course, these tips are help everyone as well.

Below is an set of tips (included in the video above) that can be us to assist students. Feel free to use these to assist any students you have that could benefit from better discussion participation.