Summaries of articles on Classroom Practices

Dobbs Tries Innovative Approach by Judy Hunter
This article, published in the very first Writing Forum in April of 1992, describes how Elizabeth Dobbs, Professor of English, integrates the work of the Writing Lab with her classroom procedures for teaching students to write.

Brown Describes Weekly Writings, Workshops by Victoria Brown
In this September 1992 article, Victoria Brown, Professor of History at Grinnell, describes how she uses weekly writings and peer review to teach writing in her courses.

Dear Faculty . . . or Writing Letters to Learn by Judy Hunter
In this article published in May of 1995, Judy Hunter, Assistant in the Writing Lab, uses a letter format to suggest how writing letters may help students learn. The article was inspired by a workshop presented by Toby Fulwiler at the Winter Workshop of the Conference on College Composition and Communication in January of 1995.

A Day in the Life of the Writing Lab by the Writing Lab Staff
In this article, published in October of 1995, each of the instructors in the Grinnell College Writing Lab (Kevin Crim, Karin Connelly, Judy Hunter, Mathilda Liberman, and Betty Moffett) describes his or her work during one day in the lab. This article drew more comment from the college community than any other ever published in the Writing Forum.

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