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High-Impact Practices (HIPs)

Writing-Intensive Courses

 

 

"These courses emphasize writing at all levels of instruction and across the curriculum, including final-year projects. Students are encouraged to produce and revise various forms of writing for different audiences in different disciplines. The effectiveness of this repeated practice “across the curriculum” has led to parallel efforts in such areas as quantitative reasoning, oral communication, information literacy, and, on some campuses, ethical inquiry." --George D. Kuh

 

Supporting Research

 

           Huskin, Patricia R. "Engagement Strategies for Increasing Student Writing Success." Education, vol. 136, no. 3, Spring2016, pp. 283-290.                                       

         Colabroy, Keri L.. "A Writing-intensive, Methods-based Laboratory Course for Undergraduates." Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, vol.                                39, no. 3, 2011, pp. 196–203.                 

 

Below is an example of a AAA109 student's project and her experience.

Writing Intensive

  • Writing Intensive courses help you learn how to:
    • Approach writing as a process.
    • Revise your written work based on feedback.
    • Provide useful feedback to your classmates about their written work.
    • Refine your critical and analytical writing skills.

Essential Learning Outcomes:

  • Gather, critically analyze and evaluate quantitative information within relevant disciplinary contexts.
  • Gather, critically analyze and evaluate qualitative information within relevant disciplinary contexts.
  • Apply and integrate knowledge from a range of disciplines, including interdisciplinary or cross-disciplinary research.
  • Communicate through reading and/or writing to receive, comprehend, and convey information.
  • Demonstrate the core ethical principles and responsible methods of your discipline.

Writing Intensive Course Development -- Essentials

Additional Writing Intensive Development Tools

HIPs Rubric 

 Faculty opt in to using the HIPs rubric by attaching it to an assignment folder. 

Step-by-step instructions for attaching the rubric to an assignment can be found at: https://ppcconline.blog/dwkb/adding-hips-rubric-to-assignment-folders/

Access the  Rubric Guide and FAQ and additional materials on the Assessment page.

Writing-Intensive Student Survey
 
New for Spring 2020: 
HIPs now has a new adaptive student survey - regardless of practice - that asks students only those questions relevant to their reported learning experience. It features the same questions as previous semester with slight rearrangement and an added COVID-19 project impact question.
 

Faculty now only have to administer the single survey link below:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HIPs-Spring2020

 

Tips on Administering the Survey

The link can be sent to students:

  • Via email
  • Given to them as a D2L announcement
  • Average completion time is approximately 14 minutes

 

Sample Announcement To Post to D2L

Students - Please complete this short survey about your course (about 15 minutes). 

It will provide me valuable feedback on your experience and help us improve student learning in the future. 

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HIPs Faculty Specialists are peer experts who are ready to assist fellow faculty to implement or improve high impact practices.

Have general HIPs questions? Contact: HIPs@ppcc.edu 

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