If you are a full- or part-time member of the Brooklyn College faculty, you can contact WAC if you are interested in a one-on-one appointment with a Writing Fellow for help developing syllabi or individual writing assignments. The WAC program also maintains a database of instructor resources that includes a variety of mini-lessons on writing-related issues that you can use in your classroom. Additional informational resources to help you further investigate how you use writing in your classes include a Digital Writing Toolkit, which provides ideas for moving writing assignments online, and Writing Benchmarks, which helps map the development of a student’s writing over the course of his or her undergraduate college career. Finally, WAC fellows host workshops throughout the fall and winter academic semesters on a variety of topics related to writing pedagogy. Check out the WAC calendar for more details.
Writing a research paper requires a range of different skills and activities, from finding and incorporating sources, to using discipline-appropriate citations. The resources provided here are designed to to help you think through and break down large research paper assignments, including suggestions for scaffolded writing activities along the way. Below are a variety of sample assignments and handouts that faculty members have used for different components of the research paper process. You may adapt these templates for your own course.
The packets below were prepared in association with previous Writing Across the Curriculum faculty workshops.
The Brooklyn College Writing Fellows have developed a number of mini-lessons on various aspects of the writing process. Each of these lessons lasts approximately 30 minutes and is easily integrated into courses in all disciplines. Each link below includes a lesson plan, hand-outs and suggestions, allowing you to adapt the lesson directly into your own course. If you would like to request a Fellow to present a mini-lesson to your class, please contact the WAC coordinators.
Students will learn the definition of plagiarism and how to avoid it. They will complete a short quiz on plagiarism to show mastery of the skill.
Students will learn how to summarize an article and identify the best summary during a brief exercise.
Select below from a variety of topics.