Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom, 2nd Edition

Learn to design interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities and incorporate them into your courses in a way that encourages inquiry, exploration, discussion, and debate, with Engaging Ideas, a practical nuts-and-bolts guide for teachers from any discipline. Integrating critical thinking with writing-across-the-curriculum approaches, the book shows how teachers from any discipline can incorporate these activities into their courses. This edition features new material dealing with genre and discourse community theory, quantitative/scientific literacy, blended and online learning, and other current issues.

• Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies
• Introduction to Rubrics: An Assessment Tool to Save Grading Time, Convey Effective Feedback, and Promote Student Learning
• Teaching Unprepared Students: Strategies for Promoting Success and Retention in Higher Education
• How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching
• Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors, 4th Edition
• Naming What We Know, Classroom Edition: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies
• The Online Teaching Survival Guide: Simple and Practical Pedagogical Tips
• A Guide to Composition Pedagogies
• Strategies for Teaching First-Year Composition
• Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning