Engaging ideas : the professor's guide to integrating writing, critical thinking, and active learning in the classroom

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

Record details

ISBN: 9780470532904 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0470532904 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9781118062319
ISBN: 1118062310
ISBN: 9781118062326
ISBN: 1118062329
ISBN: 9781118062333
ISBN: 1118062337
Physical Description: print
xxi, 360 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-352) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Understanding connections between thinking and writing -- Designing problem-based assignments -- Coaching students as learners, thinkers, and writiers -- Reading, commenting on, and grading student writing.