Use your course's big ideas to accelerate students' growth as writers
and critical thinkers
The newly revised third edition of Engaging Ideas delivers a
step-by-step guide for designing writing assignments and critical
thinking activities that engage students with important subject-matter
questions. This new edition of the celebrated book (now written by the
co-author team of Bean and Melzer) uses leading and current research and
theory to help you link active learning pedagogy to your courses'
subject matter. You'll learn how to:
- Design formal and informal writing assignments that guide students
toward thinking like experts in your discipline
- Use time-saving strategies for coaching the writing process and
handling the paper load including alternatives to traditional grading
such as portfolio assessment and contract grading
- Help students use self-assessment and peer response to improve their
work
- Develop better ways than the traditional research paper to teach
undergraduate reading and research
- Integrate social media, multimodal genres, and digital technology into
the classroom to promote active learning
This book demonstrates how writing can easily be integrated with other
critical thinking activities such as inquiry discussions, simulation
games, classroom debates, and interactive lectures. The reward of this
book is watching students come to class better prepared, more vested in
the questions your course investigates, more apt to study purposefully,
and more likely to submit high-quality work. Perfect for higher
education faculty and curriculum designers across all disciplines,
Engaging Ideas will also earn a place in the libraries of graduate
students in higher education.
