We typically read for the content, but noticing how articles are put together can help you learn strategies you might apply in your own writing and help you determine whether a particular journal is a good fit for your work. If you keep summary notes on your reading, consider adding separate comments about the writing.

The Reading/Writing Connection in Libraries

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Writing Boxes: The Reading/Writing Connection in Libraries is a guidebook and source of programming inspiration for all librarians working with early to young adult readers. Librarians will find thematic, easy to implement, hour-long writing workshops that require only paper, markers, and excited young writers. Writing Boxes further explores the essential connection between reading and writing by pairing each workshop with mentor texts to model writing, providing librarians with exemplary books to spark writing responses across genres, formats, and curricula. For a digital PDF, download here

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ISBN: 978-1-946135-55-1

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An activity combining language and science to encourage students to think about the night sky to help them write a poem related to astronomy.

The Writing Spaces Web Writing Style Guide was created as a crowdsourcing project of Collaborvention 2011: A Computers and Writing Unconference. College writing teachers from around the web joined together to create this guide (see our Contributors list). The advice within it is based on contemporary theories and best practices.

This course introduces students to the writing process as a means of developing ideas into clear, correct, and effective writing.

This text is an Open Educational Resource (OER), responding to the growing movement for Zero Cost Course Materials at SFSU, and the need to lower the costs of higher education in any way we can to provide equity and inclusion for everyone regardless of socioeconomic privilege. In addition, as an OER, this text is available far beyond one course and adaptable to students’ needs throughout their careers.

To minimize cost and maximize new learning technologies, while being mindful of various learning styles and individual needs, we have integrated various modalities and reading practices through our text, including lots of visual images and video, as well as links to external digital resources.

To make reading engaging, this text provides short writing prompts as you read – using the hypothes.is extension to annotate your responses – in order to frame reading and writing as a conversation that sometimes starts with the authors’ ideas — but importantly always involves your own ideas as well as you create meaning through the reading process. Get Started with your free hypothes.is account to annotate this text and any other open source on the web.

The teaching of writing in colleges and universities tends to focus on academic essays and research papers. Writing in the disciplines, on the other hand, refers to writing assignments tailored to the genres of a specific discipline or field. For instance, a science course might require students to write a lab report, while a sociology course might assign a case study.

This resource describes the steps involved in writing a review of literature at the postsecondary level. 

This interactive PDF explains the four types of writing and their applications, and provides some free examples.

This course explains the various styles of research writing, its content and citation

The following is an alphabet reading and writing drill based on advertisements for fast food items, restaurants/chains, and multinational companies that should mostly be recognizable to students. Students are asked to work in pairs, read the ads and write them out on the accompanying sheet in Arabic and translate them to English.

This lesson is designed for students in adult basic education grade level E (low and high adult secondary education). The purpose of this lesson is to develop student proficiency in reading and analyzing text. The lesson topic is the issue of an individual’s right to privacy as balanced with the government’s responsibility for security of its citizens.

Students will practice reading fluency by focusing on accuracy, rate, expression and phrasing.

MIT students are challenged daily to solve for x, to complete four problem sets, two papers, and prepare for an exam worth 30% of their grade... all in one night. When they do stop to breathe, it's for a shower or a meal. What does this have to do with creative writing? Everything. Creative writing and MIT go together better than you might imagine.

This resource describes the steps involved in writing a review of literature at the postsecondary level. 

Students will complete a series of tasks to build skills in preparation of writing a descritpive/narrative essay.

According to the Institute of Multi-Sensory Education (IMSE)  the Science of Reading (SoR) is a comprehensive body of research that encompasses years of scientific knowledge, spans across many languages, and shares the contributions of experts from relevant disciplines such as education, special education, literacy, psychology, neurology, and more. , literacy, psychology, neurology, and more. This resource is intended to help teacher candidates begin to understand the Science of Reading and it's educational implications.