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| Title: | Engaging ideas : the professor's guide to integrating writing, critical thinking, and active learning in the classroom / |
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| Database Name: | WorldCat |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John C Bean |
| ISBN: | 0787902039; 9780787902032 |
| Notes: | Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-274) and index. Content: Using writing to promote thinking: a busy professor's guide to the whole book -- Understanding connections between thinking and writing -- How writing is related to critical thinking -- Engaging all learners: valuing professional and personal writing -- Dealing with issues of grammar and correctness --iDesigning problem-based assignments -- Formal writing assignments -- Informal, exploratory writing activities -- Coaching students as learners, thinkers, and writers -- Designing tasks for active thinking and learning -- Helping students read difficult texts -- Coaching thinking through the use of small groups -- Alternative approaches to active learning in the classroom -- Enhancing learning and critical thinking in essay exams -- Encouraging engagement and inquiry in research papers -- Reading, commenting on, and grading student writing -- Coaching the writing process and handling the paper load -- Writing comments on students' papers -- Developing and applying grading criteria. |
| Description: | xxi, 282 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. |
| Contents: | Using writing to promote thinking: a busy professor's guide to the whole book -- Understanding connections between thinking and writing -- How writing is related to critical thinking -- Engaging all learners: valuing professional and personal writing -- Dealing with issues of grammar and correctness --iDesigning problem-based assignments -- Formal writing assignments -- Informal, exploratory writing activities -- Coaching students as learners, thinkers, and writers -- Designing tasks for active thinking and learning -- Helping students read difficult texts -- Coaching thinking through the use of small groups -- Alternative approaches to active learning in the classroom -- Enhancing learning and critical thinking in essay exams -- Encouraging engagement and inquiry in research papers -- Reading, commenting on, and grading student writing -- Coaching the writing process and handling the paper load -- Writing comments on students' papers -- Developing and applying grading criteria. |
| Responsibility: | John C. Bean ; foreword by Maryellen Weimer. |
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Bean, John C. Engaging ideas. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c1996 (OCoLC)648636466 |
| Year: | c1996. |
| Publisher: | San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, |
| Standard Numbers: | LCCN: 95036265 |
| Class Descriptors: | LC Class No.: PE1404; Dewey No.: 808/.042 |
| Series: | The Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series; Variation: Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series. |
| OCLC No.: | 33132071 |
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