- Very thorough overview of how to design writing assignments and how to design your entire semester around the writing assignment. This post on assessing the intermediate steps (i.e., making the process count) is a particularly thorough but also very good overview of big assignment design.
- Lots of Assignments on here!
Types of Questions to get the Conversation Started
- Hopefully you are already in the practice of using prewriting to let your students collect their thoughts when asking really tough questions at the beginning of class, but here’s a great guide on what those questions might actually look like!!
Linguistics 101 at UPenn Assignments
Short Linguistics Paper Assignments from Ferrum College (with guidelines)
Assignments & Solutions from John Benjamins – great for intro or Cognitive Linguistics
MIT Open Course Ware Intro to Linguistics Assignments
- Amazing list of creative and detailed ideas!
- Blogs are great classroom tools – it gets students writing publicly, holds them accountable to each other, etc., etc. But there’s something wrong. In this article, the author is looking for ways to make the blog a better assignment – great links!
