Resources for teaching writing
Developing a science communications learning activity
Kaitlin Beare created a series of online modules on ‘Science in the Media’ to help Chemistry students develop critical thinking and written communication skills.
Writing as a method of inquiry
Esther Fitzpatrick focused on creating a space for colleagues and students to explore the method of creative writing as inquiry.
Online Writing Tools for Business Students
Shireen Junpath encouraged her colleagues in the Business School to try innovative teaching methods and online writing tools.
write@uni: an on-line writing resource
Jenny Aguilar looked at write@uni an online resource to help entry-level students understand the conventions and expectations involved in academic writing.
Similarities (and similes) in writing and mathematics
Caroline Yoon researched ways to help students of mathematics with their essay-writing.
1-2-3 Lit Review
Anuj Bhargava from Physiology created a webtool to help students write their first literature review.
Narrative Medicine and Critical Reflection Through Poetry and Art
Narrative medicine formats can be presented through poetry and other structured writing forms. We were so impressed by the quality of critical reflection, empathy, and exploration of ethics and morals in many of our students’ works that we decided to create a published book of collective works showcasing narrative medicine through our medical students’ poetry and images.
The Three Lamps: An Online Literary Journal for the University of Auckland
This project involved designing and building an online literary journal called The Three Lamps (T3L) www.thethreelamps.com. This site is an ongoing showcase for the creative work (fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction) of University of Auckland students.
Experience-Based Learning: Engineering Systems Thinking
Cody Mankelow describes this project as “an experience-based tutorial program developed for teaching engineering system thinking and project management.”
Writing For Psychology
As Hineatua Parkinson explains: “Funding from a SEED grant has enabled us to run a programme for our Māori and Pacific students focused on writing for Psychology.”
Vaka: Navigating Pacific Postgraduate Horizons
An interdisciplinary Pacific postgraduate research and knowledge hub. This project’s resources were originally developed for students of Pacific Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Pacific Health students in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at the University of Auckland.
The Global Clothing Industry: An Interdisciplinary Teaching Case-Study
A resource for the inter-disciplinary teaching of sustainability issues was developed by a team of academics from Psychology, Chemistry, Sociology and the school of the Environment at the University of Auckland.
Embedding Writing for Employability in Arts
This project aimed to contribute to the embedding of writing for employability in Arts. Teaching capacity developed and a range of resources, materials and assessment strategies for workplace writing were disseminated to fit a range of Arts programmes.
Operations management simulator
These teaching resources have been developed to help Stage II business students in critical and reflective decision-making by using simulators of real-life scenarios in business operations management (i.e., case studies).
Technical Writing to Improve Understanding of Engineering Threshold Concepts
This resource develops strategies for helping civil engineering students to grasp threshold concepts by making them provide written responses to questions using an online web application, Xorro-Q.
Writing Code the Visual and Kinesthetic Way
For this project, a software called InteractiveDS was developed and trialed in order to address the challenges of engineering and computer science undergraduate students getting their heads around the complex topic of data structures.
Introducing Students to Writing Elegant Computer Code
This projects aims to help students to create programs that embody physical models and aid physics understanding before more open-ended activities move students toward writing sophisticated code, starting from scratch.
Liquid Writing
Lisa’s teaching innovation project engaged students in performative writing as well as the creation of new digital contents for a course, as part of their critical inquiry into the forms and modes of writing.
From ‘Thinking Like a Manager’ to ‘Writing Like a Manager’
The objectives of this project were: to identify, evaluate and implement a strategy simulation with a course in marketing strategy and then evaluate the effectiveness of such a simulation on student writing and academic outcomes.
Writing, Writing: Digital Content Everywhere
This project addresses ways of teaching the creation, evaluation and management of marketing content such as writing marketing strategy plans, media plans, and advertising campaigns. This requires a thoughtful systematic integration of digital technology and practices into curriculum.
Learning by Writing Using Scenario-Based Questions
This project’s resources were originally developed to explore the benefits and challenges of using writing activities in engineering courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Letting the Letters Run Ahead of Me: A Study of Writing Practices That Support Creative Thinking
In this project Alys Longley aimed to highlight methods of teaching and supervising writing that support practice-led research and creative thinking in the university.
Investigative Labs and Argument-Driven Reports in Studio Physics
A resource for improving critical thinking and written communication in Physics through open-ended experiments and abbreviated argumentative reports.
Writing Reflective Scripts in Maths
A resource to help students overcome misconceptions and difficulties in mathematics developed by Igor’ Kontorovich from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Science.
Common, Discipline-Specific Elements of Proficient Student Writing
This project aimed to explore common core and disciplinary-specific elements in undergraduate writing in Arts subjects by learning about assignment requirements and staff views on proficient writing and to then use this knowledge to develop and implement workshops on dissertation writing.
Student Writing Textbank
A textbank of exemplary student work annotated by teachers. These resources might be useful to undergraduate and honours students and teachers across the disciplines, looking for samples of annotated exemplary assignments.
Encouraging Collaborative Writing via Google Docs Analytics
In this small-scale teaching initiative, the team looked at innovative ways to use analytic plug-in tools to identify individual contributions to collaborative student writing.